CCTV of Lamarre-Condon shows alleged killer's movements hours after deaths

A NSW court has released more CCTV compilations showing the movements of accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon in the hours after the deaths of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.

The 31-year-old denies two counts of murder and is claiming self-defence in a three-month trial before a jury in the NSW Supreme Court.

The former police officer is accused of shooting the young couple with his service pistol in Mr Baird's Paddington share house, in Sydney's east, on February 19, 2024.

The jurors have recently been played a compilation of CCTV footage which the Crown says shows Mr Lamarre-Condon picking up a hire van and returning to the Brown Street terrace at night, after he allegedly murdered the couple in the morning.

He is accused of storing their bodies in surfboard bags in the courtyard before later moving them.

The jury has this week heard evidence from police officers who attended a rural area at Bungonia, south of Sydney, where the bodies of the two men were ultimately found in surfboard bags eight days later.

Among the exhibits released by the court on Thursday are photographs of Cella Farm in Bungonia, where police scoured dams and farm land for evidence.

The court has heard that they discovered concrete residue, zip ties, and weights.

Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly attempted to sink the bodies, unsuccessfully, in a dam before returning to the area later and moving them.

The jury has heard that police went to the farm after taking an induced statement from a witness, who has been given the pseudonym Elizabeth Kennedy in the trial, who was with Mr Lamarre-Condon in a white van on a drive to Goulburn in the days after the alleged murders.

Police investigated further at the farm after noticing a padlock at the front gate had been cut, Detective Senior Constable Christine Abela told the court in evidence on Wednesday.

The court has previously been shown a receipt from a Bunnings store for items including a bucket, mop, gloves, bleach, cleaning cloths, cable ties and garbage bags.

Mr Lamarre-Condon does not deny being at the home while wearing an Uber Eats delivery driver outfit on the day, but his lawyers say he went there to collect belongings expecting nobody to be home.

The Crown's case is that he developed a jealous infatuation with Mr Baird, a Channel Ten television presenter, after being somewhat romantically involved with him from 2022.

But the prosecution says Mr Baird considered things more casual and the jury has heard evidence about two apparent break ups between the pair; first in April, 2023 and another in November, 2023, when Mr Baird discovered Mr Lamarre-Condon had allegedly interfered with his phone.

Lamarre-Condon police gun swabbed for DNA

The court has also released more images of Mr Lamarre-Condon's police pistol tendered as exhibits, with areas highlighted showing where DNA testing was conducted on the weapon.

The jury has heard that the results showed DNA on parts of the gun, including the trigger, originated from three individuals, and that Mr Davies was matched as a major contributor, while the accused matched as a minor contributor.

The defence case is that during a second struggle with the pistol inside Mr Baird's home, Mr Davies pulled the trigger and fatally shot himself.

The Crown alleges he was shot through a bedroom door as he attempted to call Triple Zero (000), in order to eliminate a witness to the alleged murder of Mr Baird.

Mr Lamarre-Condon's lawyers have suggested an alternative version of what took place inside the Brown Street home, including two separate struggles involving the police gun that resulted in the deaths.

They have indicated it will be his case that he panicked considerably after the tragic deaths and cleaned the scene because he knew how it would look.