Beau Lamarre-Condon denies claims he was ‘laughing’ and ‘relaxed’ in days after alleged murders

Accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon has denied suggestions he was “laughing” and “relaxed” in the days after he allegedly killed a couple, and that he is looking for “sympathy” by bringing up bullying claims about the police force.

Mr Lamarre-Condon, 31, has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, arguing self-defence in his murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court.

The accused killer returned to the witness box for the third time on Monday, clutching rosary beads.

Mr Lamarre-Condon denied he was “relaxed” and “laughing” in the days after the couple’s death, with the accused killer adamant he was “panicking” and “not having a good time”.

Asked if he was “quite relaxed” while purchasing a second surfboard bag, Mr Lamarre-Condon told Mr Hatfield to “remember that as a police officer … I can’t panic, I can’t react”.

Footage of Beau Lamarre-Condon purchasing a second surfboard bag in the hours after allegedly murdering a Sydney couple has been released.

He told the jury just because he didn’t appear to have a reaction on camera didn’t mean he wasn’t crying minutes before.

“You need to remember as well this is someone that I once cared about,” he said.

“There’s family members that are sad and upset … but Jesse was someone that I did care about as well.”

“I’m not laughing on camera, I’m not having a good old time … But you just can’t see it because I can detach,” Mr Lamarre-Condon said.

When Mr Hatfield suggested he was smiling, laughing and licking his fingers at a sushi train dinner the night after the alleged murders, Mr Lamarre-Condon said he thought it was “very interesting” that the entire footage of the dinner wasn’t played in court.

“(I am) clearly panicking … We are not laughing, I don’t think it’s funny,” he said.

“If you watch that footage … the one that you were very happy to pass over on, I’m not smiling.”

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.

Mr Lamarre-Condon also claimed it was “still very much a real possibility for me” that he would go to the police by the 21st of February.

“Is that a serious answer Mr Lamarre?” Mr Hatfield asked.

“I don’t find this to be a joke, Mr Crown,” he replied.

‘Doesn’t suit your case’: Cop’s claim

On the morning of the alleged murders, he used a car that his mother Coleen had hired the night before, with Mr Lamarre-Condon telling the jury her car was being serviced between February 19 to March 18.

When pressed by Mr Hatfield about the car being in service for almost 30 days and the bill was only $500, Mr Lamarre-Condon said “this isn’t a lie” before attacking the investigation against him.

The accused killer implored Mr Hatfield to look at records related to his mother’s phone if they “wanted to do a very fair and non-biased investigation”, saying the lead investigator could have found the documents but she didn’t “because it doesn’t suit your case”.

He also denied purchasing the surfboard bag for the purpose of putting Mr Baird’s body inside.

When asked why he used cash for the purchase days before the alleged murders, Mr Lamarre-Condon said “Mr Crown, I’ve been waiting for this question and I’m glad you asked me” before claiming he had taken cash out for a date.

“I went on a date … all this footage that you put in front of the jury, but not this,” he said.

“I already had that cash with me, so of course I’m gonna use cash.”

Cop denies ‘homicidal’ claim, suggestions he is looking for ‘sympathy’

The accused killer denied suggestions that he was “homicidal” and not “suicidal” before it is alleged he murdered the couple. The former police officer has spoken several times about alleged bullying and homophobia he experienced in the NSW Police force during his time in the witness box, telling the jury he was suicidal and had tried to take his life in October 2023.

He claims he wanted to commit suicide at several points, which is why he says he was looking for a silencer and gun in Bali during a holiday at the end of 2023 into early 2024.

He was grilled by Mr Hatfield about the “relevance of the bullying” on Monday, with the prosecutor asking: “You’re trying to get sympathy for these claims?” Mr Lamarre-Condon said this was not true, also denying suggestions that claims of an actual suicide attempt were false.

“This isn’t something for sympathy, this was the real life I was living … unfortunately,” Mr Lamarre-Condon said.

Justice Natalie Adams needed to interject at least twice to tell him to “just answer the Crown’s question” and “just listen to the question and answer”, with the former police officer at times trying to bring up other evidence.

When interrogated on a conversation he had with a close friend shortly after the alleged murders, Mr Lamarre-Condon at one point asked the prosecutor: “Are you going to put something towards me? The answer’s no, I just told you.”

‘Impossible’: Ballistics expert on bullet claim

The former policeman claims he shot Mr Baird in the shoulder in an attempt to get him to drop a knife, but says he accidentally shot the TV presenter a second time during a struggle. He also told the jury his version of events surrounding Mr Davies’ death, denying he shot him through a bedroom door.

Mr Lamarre-Condon was asked to draw and annotate a floorplan of Mr Baird’s house and indicate where he found certain items including a mobile phone he claims to have used to call triple-0.

Mr Lamarre-Condon also re-enacted the position he was in leading up to the first shot to Mr Baird at the instruction of Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield.

“Put your rosary beads down while you do that,” Mr Hatfield said.

Mr Lamarre-Condon was asked if it was “obvious” to him that Mr Baird was dead as he apparently put him in the recovery position and said he was getting him help.

“I knew he was unresponsive, I just didn’t know he was dead,” Mr Lamarre-Condon said.

Mr Lamarre-Condon was asked if it was “obvious” to him that Mr Baird was dead as he apparently put him in the recovery position and said he was getting him help.

“I knew he was unresponsive, I just didn’t know he was dead,” Mr Lamarre-Condon said.

He told the jury he initially thought the injury to Mr Baird’s temple was a graze or scrape.

“And with his temple … wasn’t it obvious that he’d been shot through his head … wasn’t there a lot of blood?” Mr Hatfield asked.

“Yes … but it can simply mean that he’s got a marking there,” Mr Lamarre-Condon replied.

He kept the motorcycle helmet he had worn as part of his Uber Eats rider disguise on the entire time, with Mr Hatfield asking whether he had thought to take it off while attending to Mr Baird.

“I didn’t need to … I’m not doing CPR,” he said.

Mr Lamarre-Condon denied suggestions that he “executed” Mr Baird with the second shot, telling the jury he “never executed” the man.

“It was not necessary to shoot him that second time?” Mr Hatfield asked.

“Well I didn’t intentionally do it, so that’s my answer,” the accused killer replied.

Cop on ‘impossible’ bullet claim

Mr Lamarre-Condon claims Mr Davies accidentally shot himself in front of Mr Baird’s bedroom door during a struggle, and that the bullet went out through the back of the man’s head before becoming lodged in the door.

“(The gun) discharged at his face … that obviously was never the plan … it was to get out of the line of fire,” Mr Lamarre-Condon said.

“It got stuck in the door … I had to get the bullet out after.”

Mr Hatfield asked whether it was the case that he shot Mr Davies through the door while the Qantas host was on the phone.

“I never shot Luke through the door,” he replied.

NSW Police ballistics expert Lucas Van Der Walt earlier told the jury it would be “impossible” for a bullet to pass through a body before becoming lodged in a door during the Crown case.

The bullet hole in Mr Baird’s door was only discovered in July this year as Mr Lamarre-Condon covered it with a felt sticker and a mounting hook.

Accused killer’s triple-0 call claim

Mr Lamarre-Condon claims he found a phone on the bench after shooting Mr Baird and called triple-0 before moving towards the front of the house for the purposes of flagging down a paramedic or passing ambulance.

Prosecutors allege Luke Davies says “get out” and “f**k off” in a triple-0 call in his final moments before he was allegedly murdered by Beau Lamarre-Condon. Authorities tried to call Mr Davies back when the call disconnected, but the calls went to his voicemail.

There, he was met with Mr Davies who was now holding his gun, Mr Lamarre-Condon said, telling the jury he used a “shoo” motion and asked Mr Davies to “get out” before the man raised the gun and told him to “f**k off”.

“I suggest to you that it’s Mr Davies, it’s the same voice saying ‘Get out, f**k off,” Mr Hatfield said.

“I disagree it’s two voices,” Mr Lamarre Condon replied, with the call played to the jury several times on Monday.

He denied suggestions he shot the Qantas host through the bedroom door after hearing him on the phone, telling Mr Hatfield it would have been “impossible” to hear as his ears were ringing from the first two shots while referencing the alleged terror attack at Bondi last year.

“My ears were ringing out I remember it very vividly,” Mr Lamarre-Condon told the jury.

“If you look at the incident at Bondi, multiple police officers had to go to hospital because of the gunshots (near their ears).”

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