Ex-Policeman Says He's Not Guilty After Two Men Were Killed

Beau Lamarre-Condon pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies as his trial opened in Sydney's Supreme Court on 21 September 2026.

Lamarre-Condon is 31 and a former police officer. He also denied aggravated break and enter, which means entering a home without permission in serious circumstances. The Crown says he shot Baird, 26, and Davies, 29, Baird's partner, with his police gun at Baird's home in Paddington in February 2024 The Guardian.

Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield said Lamarre-Condon became fixated on Baird, leading to repeated, unwanted behaviour. The court heard the two men were in a relationship from late 2022 into 2023. Baird cut off all contact in November 2023.

The Crown says Lamarre-Condon started planning to kill Baird in early 2024. On 19 February 2024, prosecutors say, he wore a motorcycle helmet, posed as an Uber Eats rider and used a key he had got earlier to enter Baird's house.

Inside, prosecutors say, he shot Baird twice in the kitchen and then shot Davies in the bedroom. Both men died. Prosecutors say Davies was killed after Baird on purpose.

The Crown says he then tried to hide the deaths. The bodies were moved from Paddington to Bungonia, almost 200km away, and found eight days after the deaths. Prosecutors say he first tried and failed to sink the bodies in a nearby dam.

Lamarre-Condon offered to admit to manslaughter instead of murder. Think of the difference like planning to kill compared with causing a death without that plan. Prosecutors rejected the offer. Murder needs proof of intent to kill. The case will go ahead on murder plus the break-in charge. The jury was chosen before the opening speeches. The trial is expected to last two to three more months.

In a separate matter, his mother Coleen Lamarre, 63, was charged with perverting the course of justice The Guardian. That means police say she tried to influence a key witness in the murder trial. Police say that charge is separate and will be handled on its own.

The broader context here is what the next months will test. The Crown has set out claims about motive, planning, disguise and hiding the bodies. By offering manslaughter but denying murder, the defence has pointed to a dispute over thinking and intent, not over who was there or whether the men died. Two questions will matter. One is the alleged use of a police gun and a kept key, and how access is controlled. The other is trust in witnesses, after the charge against Coleen Lamarre. What we have heard so far comes only from the Crown opening. The defence has not yet given its full reply. The jury will decide on intent, planning and who to believe after months of evidence.