Beau Lamarre-Condon’s friend claims ‘he never showed any remorse’: court

Beau Lamarre-Condon’s friend claims he “never showed any remorse or shed a tear” as he fights allegations that he murdered a Sydney couple.

The former police officer allegedly fatally shot Jesse Baird, whom he briefly dated, and the TV presenter’s new boyfriend Luke Davies on February 19, 2024.

Mr Lamarre-Condon, 31, has pleaded not guilty and is arguing self-defence before a jury trial in the NSW Supreme Court.

His friend, known for legal reasons by the pseudonym Elizabeth Kennedy, sparked a major search for the couple’s bodies after she told police she had driven to Cella Farm in Bungonia in the NSW Southern Tablelands – where Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly tried to sink the bodies – with him in February 2024.

Ms Kennedy denied suggestions from Mr Lamarre-Condon’s barrister, John Stratton SC, that the former officer showed her Mr Baird’s head before they set off for the farm and that Mr Lamarre-Condo started crying.

“No. He never showed any remorse or shed a tear, even when he called me from jail,” Ms Kennedy told the jury.

Ms Kennedy also denied suggestions she told Mr Lamarre-Condon they needed to hide the couple’s bodies and it was “like the Taylor Swift song No Body, No Crime”.

“He was the one that put that song on in the car,” Ms Kennedy told the jury.

“I asked him how he knew (the song) and he said from the album Evermore. And then I tried to play a few more songs from the album Evermore and he didn’t know any of them.”

The jury was earlier told Mr Lamarre-Condon claimed in a June 2025 statement that he showed Ms Kennedy the couple’s bodies and she urged him not to go to the police.

“The Crown submits that that’s a lie, that he had already decided to conceal the deaths of the two men by disposing of them,” Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC told the jury.

Cop’s words after alleged failed body dump

Ms Kennedy earlier told the court Mr Lamarre-Condon mentioned wanting a Lipton iced tea on the drive back from the farm, saying he needed the caffeine because he was “gonna be up all night”.

“I did ask why he had to come back, and he said, ‘Don’t worry, I can’t tell you … I don’t want to involve you’,” she said.

“He was very quiet on the way back, it seemed like something went wrong … He wouldn’t tell me about it, he just kept saying, ‘You don’t need to know, I’m taking you home’.”

Ms Kennedy claimed the former officer told her “I don’t wanna be on camera” while asking her to fill up the van’s fuel on the drive back from the farm, and that he was “visibly annoyed” when she told him she was unable to do it.

‘Crazy’: Cop’s response after questions about missing TV presenter

The day after, Ms Kennedy told the jury she tried to call the former officer multiple times for “explanations about the night before”, and that she wanted answers “about his behaviour the night before” after seeing news that Mr Baird was missing that afternoon.

When he finally called her back, Ms Kennedy says Mr Lamarre-Condon told her he needed to go speak with detectives the following day.

“I said ‘have you seen the news?’, he said ‘yeah it’s crazy, I have to go to Bondi Police Station to speak with detectives tomorrow’,” Ms Kennedy told the jury.

“I said ‘do you know where Jesse is?’, he said ‘No it’s just crazy’.”

Mr Lamarre-Condon also told her he was “sorry” if he couldn’t go with her on a Europe trip they were planning and “I love you”, the jury was told.

“He sounded apologetic, he sounded a bit stressed, and then he hung up and I did try to call him back after that but the phone was off ,” Ms Kennedy said.

‘Freezing’ drive to farm with alleged killer

Days after he is alleged to have killed the Sydney couple, Mr Lamarre-Condon picked up Ms Kennedy in a van and took her for a long drive.

Ms Kennedy told the jury the van was “freezing” as the air conditioner was on and the windows were open and recalled the vehicle having a faint “lemon” smell like Ajax.

“He asked me to turn my phone off and not text anyone … I wasn’t allowed to put the windows up or put the aircon off,” Ms Kennedy told the jury.

She said she could see a blue tarp in the back of the van, with Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly telling her he was moving furniture and changing the subject when she asked how much longer the drive was going to be.

The jury was earlier told Ms Kennedy approached police two days after the drive and told authorities Mr Lamarre-Condon had left her at the gate to the farm.

It is alleged he stuffed the couple’s bodies in surfboard bags, wrapped them in tarp, and then tried to sink them in a dam at the farm.

When this failed, he is accused of later dumping them outside a nearby Greek monastery.

The jury has been told she made a statement to police under the promise that what she disclosed would not be used against her in any criminal proceedings, and she has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

‘You’re wrong. Again’: Tense exchange with cop’s barrister

Members of the jury laughed during a tense exchange between Ms Kennedy and Mr Stratton, with the barrister suggesting Mr Lamarre-Condon never told her he “would have assaulted Jesse” if he caught up to him after allegedly breaking into his home in 2023.

“You’re wrong. Again,” Ms Kennedy said.

Also asked whether she told police she couldn’t smell anything out of the ordinary, she replied: “Yes. To be fair, I don’t know what a dead body smells like.”

Asked whether it looked as though “there might be two dead bodies under the tarp”, she told the jury “this is the last thing that I would have expected” and agreed it looked like there was nothing under the tarp.

Ms Kennedy denied a flurry of further suggestions by Mr Stratton about her evidence on Tuesday and in her police statements, including a submission that Mr Lamarre-Condon “never” told her he had a key cut to break into Mr Baird’s home.

“You’re very wrong, he told me that face to face,” Ms Kennedy replied.

Ms Kennedy denied suggestions she was concerned she would be charged with accessory after the fact of murder when she presented to police on February 23 with her solicitor and made a statement.

“I wasn’t concerned that I would be charged with anything,” Ms Kennedy said.

“(I was) more concerned that I was involved in something illegal without my knowledge.”

She denied suggestions that she gave “untruthful evidence to minimise (her) role in disposing of evidence” to avoid being prosecuted and claims that she “knew there were two dead bodies in the back of the van”.

“Wrong,” she answered.

Cop ‘talkative’ on drive to farm

Ms Kennedy on Wednesday told the jury Mr Lamarre-Condon was “very talkative” on the drive to the farm and mentioned Mr Baird was “seeing someone new”.

“He was like ‘Guess what? Jesse’s seeing someone new’,” Ms Kennedy said.

When they arrived at the farm she says Mr Lamarre-Condon broke the padlock at the gate and left her there before driving off in the van.

Ms Kennedy told the jury they spent more than an hour at the farm.

“He said he knew (the farm) from an old friend, he said he knew the owners, and then he said the cattle was going to get out so he had to go break in and save the cattle,” Ms Kennedy said.

‘Scare someone’: Alleged killer cop’s request

Ms Kennedy told the jury the former officer asked her for a gun silencer before the couple’s deaths so he could “scare someone”.

“I asked him what it was for … (I asked), ‘Don’t you have a gun, why would you need a silencer?’ and he was just like ‘Oh it’s just to scare someone’,” Ms Kennedy said.

Ms Kennedy agreed with Mr Stratton that she didn’t have any connections to be able to obtain a silencer, telling the jury: “If anyone would, I would think it was (Mr Lamarre-Condon) because he’s a police officer.”

“You can’t think of any reason why the accused would think you would have access to a silencer?” Mr Stratton asked.

“Correct. Look at me,” Ms Kennedy fired back before denying suggestions that Mr Lamarre-Condon had never asked her about a silencer.

Cop’s Bunnings trip day after alleged murders

CCTV footage earlier played to the jury revealed the moment Mr Lamarre-Condon went to Bunnings in Alexandria the day after he is accused of murdering the couple.

Beau Lamarre-Condon’s Bunnings trip the day after he is accused of murdering a Sydney couple has been revealed on CCTV released by a court.

The former police officer walked into the store about 9am on February 20 and used cash to purchase men’s pants, a hoodie, gumboots, a dust mask and a drill, the jury was told.

Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly dumped the belongings of a Sydney couple he is accused of murdering in a Cronulla skip bin after a sushi train dinner the evening after the couple’s deaths.

CCTV footage played in court shows Mr Lamarre-Condon going for a sushi train dinner with a friend in Cronulla later on February 20, with the jury earlier told he had mentioned needing to find a skip bin.

Footage later shows a man prosecutors allege is the former officer’s friend getting out of a car at the Club Cronulla skip bin, with Mr Lamarre-Condon then accused of driving the man home before returning later that night to dump the couple’s belongings in the skip bin.

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