Beau Lamarre-Condon’s friend tells jury he was ‘excited’ after allegedly breaking into TV presenter’s home while he was asleep

Beau Lamarre-Condon’s friend has claimed in court the accused killer was “excited” after allegedly breaking into his TV presenter ex-boyfriend’s house as he slept.

The former police officer allegedly killed Jesse Baird and his 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.

The jury is hearing evidence from one of his former friends, known for legal reasons by the pseudonym Elizabeth Kennedy, on Tuesday afternoon.

The woman sparked a major search for the couple’s bodies after she approached police and revealed she had driven to a farm in Bungonia - where Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly tried to sink the bodies - with him in February 2024.

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

She told the jury on Tuesday that Mr Lamarre-Condon “invited himself over” to her house one day in 2023 and asked her to leave her phone in another room before telling her, “I’ve gotta tell you something crazy”.

Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly said, “Please don’t judge me” before telling her he had broken into Mr Baird’s home.

“(He was) excited - like happy, like he’d gotten away with it - but nervous. And he also mentioned that it was crazy and that I need to stop him,” Ms Kennedy told the jury.

“He said that he got a key cut, and he went in when Jesse was asleep - (he) took his phone, took it off charge, left the house in Paddington, went across the street, deleted contacts, deleted photos, turned off alarms, turned on Snapchat location and went back inside and put the phone back.

“He told me it was crazy and to not let him do that again... He knew it was wrong.”

She told the jury she thought Mr Lamarre-Condon knew where Mr Baird’s spare key was and had a copy made “so he had his own”.

Speaking about turning on Mr Baird’s Snapchat location, Ms Kennedy told the court the former officer was “very proud of himself” but worried he wouldn’t be able to “track him anymore” if the TV presenter later turned his location off.

“He was just very bubbly about it, just very happy with himself,” Ms Kennedy told the jury.

Alleged killer cop ‘stalked’ celebrities: friend

She earlier said Mr Lamarre-Condon would send her photos of celebrities, making out he was friends with them when he was actually “stalking” them.

Jurors have previously heard Mr Lamarre-Condon had an interest in celebrities, with another witness telling the court she had seen a photo of him with Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker.

Ms Kennedy said the former officer first told her about Mr Baird in 2023, and that he told her that the TV presenter was “the one”.

She told the court Mr Lamarre-Condon would use his dog, Ivy, against Mr Baird as the TV presenter was fond of the animal.

“He would always sort of tempt him with the dog,” Ms Kennedy said.

She said Mr Lamarre-Condon at one stage became “suspicious” that Mr Baird was seeing other people, and “would go through his phone, delete photos, delete contacts, block people”.

Ms Kennedy said the couple went on a “break” before Mr Lamarre-Condon went to Europe in 2023, and that the former officer was “very annoyed” Mr Baird had muted his Instagram account so was not seeing him “living his best life” in Europe.

Mr Lamarre-Condon tried to get back with Mr Baird later, Ms Kennedy told the jury, but the TV presenter did not seem interested.

Ms Kennedy said the former officer “would try to bump into” Mr Baird and was “tracking him” on social media app Snapchat.

Alleged killer used Swift song in ‘lie’: court

Mr Lamarre-Condon claims he showed Ms Kennedy the couple’s bodies and she urged him not to go to the police as “they won’t believe you”, according to a statement he wrote in June 2025.

“This is like Taylor Swift’s song No Body, No Crime – we have to get rid of (the bodies) straight away,” Mr Lamarre-Condon claims the woman told her.

Prosecutors allege Mr Lamarre-Condon’s statement is a “lie”.

“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.

Ms Kennedy ultimately sparked a days-long search for the couple’s bodies when she approached police on February 23 and told them she had gone on a drive to a farm with Mr Lamarre-Condon days earlier on February 21, the jury was told.

The former officer allegedly left her at the gate to Cella Farm in Bungonia in the NSW Southern Tablelands and cut the padlock.

Mr Lamarre-Condon was talkative on the drive to the farm, but his “mood was different” on the way back, Mr Hatfield previously told the jury.

He refused to use toll roads, told Ms Kennedy not to use her phone, and kept repeating “F**k, now I have to come back”, the jury was told.

It’s alleged he tried to sink the couple’s bodies in a dam at the farm, but when this failed, he later dumped them outside a Greek monastery 20km away.

Mr Lamarre-Condon handed himself in on the same day Ms Kennedy spoke with police, the jury was told, with prosecutors alleging he knew he was a suspect in the couple’s disappearance by this stage.

The couple’s bodies were not found until four days later, more than a week after their deaths.

Cop’s surgery before alleged attempt to dump bodies

Mr Lamarre-Condon underwent surgery the same day he is accused of trying to sink the couple’s bodies at Cella Farm, the jury was told.

A surgeon at St Vincent’s Hospital said in a statement read to the jury that he performed surgery on Mr Lamarre-Condon on the morning of February 21, 2024.

The operation lasted about 15 minutes under general anaesthetic, and Mr Lamarre-Condon would have been in the operating theatre about 7am and was out of hospital by about 9.30am, according to the surgeon’s statement.

The jury was previously told Mr Lamarre-Condon drove to Cella Farm later that day where it is alleged he tried to sink the couple’s bodies in a dam.

The surgeon’s statement read to the jury noted that driving was generally not recommended until the day after a person received general anaesthetic.

The February 2024 surgery followed two other operations performed on Mr Lamarre-Condon the year prior, including one in December, the jury was told.

The jury was earlier told Mr Lamarre-Condon faked a cancer diagnosis in a message to Mr Baird purporting to be from his friend, Shae Davison, after the TV presenter cut contact with Mr Lamarre-Condon in November 2023.

The messages, released by the court, state that Mr Lamarre-Condon had a “cancerous tumour” growing and he was prescribed medications for chemo radiation treatment before a surgery scheduled in December.

While the surgeon’s statement confirmed the former officer did undergo a surgery in December, it was unclear what it was for, with prosecutors alleging that Mr Lamarre-Condon “did not have cancer”.

“The Crown case (is) that was a lie, the accused did not have cancer,” Mr Hatfield earlier told the jury.

Cop’s gun used in test shot into TV presenter’s door

The gun Mr Lamarre-Condon is accused of murdering the couple with was used by police to fire a test shot into the door he allegedly shot Mr Davies through.

The gun Mr Lamarre-Condon is accused of murdering a Sydney couple with was used by police to fire a test shot into the door he allegedly shot a man through.

Prosecutors allege Mr Lamarre-Condon shot Mr Davies through the door as he tried to call triple-0, but the former officer’s legal team argues the Qantas host shot himself during a struggle.

A bullet hole in the door was only discovered in July 2026, with the jury told it was missed in the 2024 investigation, as it had been covered with a hook.

A newly released video played to the jury shows the moment a police officer fires a bullet into the bedroom door during a test shot, with images comparing the test shot and the actual bullet hole found by investigators also shown in the footage.

The door was removed from Mr Baird’s Paddington home and taken to the Sydney Police Centre Shooting Range for the test shot.

NSW Police ballistics expert Lucas Van Der Walt earlier told the jury the test shot was fired from about 5cm away from the door, and the shot that caused the original bullet hole would have been discharged at a “very similar distance”.

Mr Van Der Walt also told the jury splintering of the wood in the original bullet hole was “very similar” to splintering found on the test shot, noting splintering on the original hole had been covered with putty.

The jury has been told no bullet or impact mark was found in Mr Baird’s bedroom, with Mr Van Der Walt offering up a range of explanations for the absence of a bullet, including that it may have hit a medium that was later removed from the scene such as a jacket, pillow or blanket.

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