‘What would you do if I told you I killed somebody?’: Cop’s alleged question to friend after break-up
An ex-cop allegedly asked his friend what they would do if he told them he had killed somebody after breaking up with one of his alleged victims, a jury has heard.
Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly asked a friend, “What would you do if I told you I killed somebody?” before telling her he had broken into his ex-boyfriend’s home after their relationship ended, a jury has been told.
The former police officer, 31, is accused of disguising himself as an Uber Eats rider before murdering TV presenter Jesse Baird and his new partner Luke Davies at the journalist’s home in Paddington, Sydney in February 2024.
He is arguing self-defence as he fights the murder allegations before a jury trial in the NSW Supreme Court.
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Mr Baird briefly dated Mr Lamarre-Condon from late 2022 until April 2023, and again in September to November of that year, a jury has been told.
A friend of Mr Lamarre-Condon, Georgia Cook, told the jury the former officer allegedly asked her, “What would you do if I told you I killed somebody?” after he first broke up with the TV presenter.
“One of the first things he said was, ‘What would you do if I told you I killed somebody?’ and I just froze, and he said ‘Would you help me hide the body?’,” she said.
“I said, ‘No, because I don’t want their ghost to haunt me.’
“He kind of laughed it off and said, ‘Well don’t worry I didn’t do that, but I did do something crazy’.”
Mr Lamarre-Condon then told her he had been “watching Jesse” from outside his home, including watching him have sex with other men, Ms Cook told the court.
He allegedly told her he would wear a black hoodie and use his mother’s car so Mr Baird wouldn’t recognise him.
Ms Cook said Mr Lamarre-Condon told her he had seen Mr Baird use a Polaroid camera he had bought him to take photographs with his friends as he watched over the back fence, before breaking into the home.
“He watched where Jesse left his key,” Ms Cook told the jury.
“Once Jesse and the friends had left…he went and got the key and unlocked the door, broke into the house.
“He stole the Polaroid camera…he ate Jesse’s Easter egg.
“He said there was something else that he did, but he didn’t tell me what it was.”
Ms Cook’s evidence will continue on Monday.
Cop faked cancer in 1600-word text: court
Mr Baird casually dated Mr Lamarre-Condon but cut all contact with him in November 2023 after realising he’d been going through his phone, the jury has been told.
Days later, Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly convinced his friend Shae Davison to let him use her phone to send a lengthy Instagram message of more than 1600 words to Mr Baird, in which tried to blame his behaviour on a fake cancer diagnosis.
“Worst-case scenario could result in, I don’t even want to say, or having to possibly have his arm amputated,” the message from the woman’s phone allegedly read.
Jurors were told that in the message, Mr Lamarre-Condon claimed he was having surgery and had been prescribed medications for chemo and radiation treatment that can affect how a person would normally act.
“He always has spoken so highly of you Jesse, and I know there is deep love there … it definitely won’t happen overnight but it can 110 per cent come back.”
Mr Hatfield said it was the Crown case that the cancer diagnosis “was a lie”.
“The accused did not have cancer, nor was he being treated,” Mr Hatfield told the jury.
Ms Davison on Friday told the court she did not want to let Mr Lamarre-Condon send the message, but eventually gave in as she felt pressured.
“He told me that he wanted the messages to come from me as one last try to win Jesse back,” Ms Davison said.
“He put a lot of pressure on me. He said that he never asks anything from me, I’m his friend, he’s so upset.
“I felt like (he was) guilt-tripping to me and using our friendship to get what he wanted out of that.”
She told the jury Mr Lamarre-Condon didn’t want her to read the message and claimed there were medical details in it he did not want her to know until after he had a surgery that December.
Ms Davison later had her husband read the message to her without the medical parts, telling the jury there were lies in the message about her.
Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly wrote in the text that he had made the impulsive decision to look at Mr Baird’s texts and unintentionally came across other messages and “just saw red and blocked him”, the jury was told.
TV presenter ‘concerned’ after ‘coffee incident’
Jack Kelly, one of Mr Baird’s colleagues from his time on the program Totally Wild, told the jury that on one occasion, the presenter was having coffee with another man in Paddington when he received a text from the former officer saying “you look happy”.
“He was pretty concerned about that,” Mr Kelly told the jury.
“He didn’t know that this person could see him, he didn’t know that (Mr Lamarre-Condon) was around, he just received the message out of the blue.”
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