A Sydney police officer allegedly told a friend he would conceal the bodies of his victims in remote bushland and discard their belongings in a dumpster, months before he is accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, is accused of fatally shooting the couple using a police service weapon at Baird’s Paddington residence on 19 February 2024.
He has entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of murder and one count of aggravated break and enter.
During his double murder trial on Monday, Georgia Cook, a close friend of Lamarre-Condon, recounted a dinner from May 2023 to the NSW Supreme Court.
The brief relationship between Baird and Lamarre-Condon had concluded when the accused asked Cook what she would do if he confessed to killing someone, the jury heard.
He subsequently inquired what she would do if she committed murder and how she would dispose of the bodies, to which Cook replied that she had no idea.
On Monday, Cook testified that Lamarre-Condon stated: ‘After I’d killed them, I would take their belongings, put them in a dumpster, and take their bodies to the bushland where nobody would ever find them.’
When asked about her reaction, Cook said the situation in 2023 felt ‘very surreal’.
‘I didn’t know whether to believe what I was hearing or whether it was true,’ she told the jury.
‘Hearing a person of authority within the police force say that made me feel like I had nowhere to turn, and I was deeply frightened by what I had heard.’
Following the alleged shootings of Baird and Davies in February 2024, the prosecution stated during its opening argument last week that Lamarre-Condon dumped Baird’s bloodied belongings and furniture into a skip bin in Cronulla.
The two bodies were discovered on the perimeter fence of a Greek Orthodox monastery in remote bushland in Bungonia, approximately 200km from Paddington.
On Friday, Cook told the court that Lamarre-Condon had informed her he had been surveilling Baird from outside his home. The crown alleged in its opening that the officer began planning the murder in early 2024.
The defence team claims he was acting in self-defence after disguising himself as an UberEats rider and entering Baird’s home on the day of the shootings.
The trial before Justice Natalie Adams continues.
