Covert prison recording of Beau Lamarre-Condon played to jury in NSW murder trial

A covert recording of a prison conversation between Beau Lamarre-Condon and a friend has been played to the jury in his murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court. The recording was made on behalf of police, according to The Guardian.

Lamarre-Condon, 31, is a former NSW police officer. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter, a charge involving unlawful entry into a property. The trial is being heard before Justice Natalie Adams.

The prosecution's case is that Lamarre-Condon fatally shot Jesse Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon in Baird's home in Paddington on 19 February 2024. Baird was a TV presenter. Davies, his partner, was a flight attendant.

In the recording, which was made during a prison visit in December of the previous year, Lamarre-Condon asked his friend to turn around to show he was not wearing a wire. He also said that his entry into Baird's home was not break and enter, because Baird had had a key cut for him. He told the friend he had told him he broke into the home on two occasions, according to ABC News.

Lamarre-Condon also said, in words the court heard, "If I had planned to do this mate, I'd be cool, calm collected." He said he would have had cleaning ready and would not have used a police firearm. In the recording he said he had taken his friend to the Royal National Park before the murders in early 2024 and fired his gun to test how loud it was, because he was planning to return there to take his own life.

He also told the friend: "I fully take accountability that you're involved because of me now."

The friend, whose identity is suppressed, testified that Lamarre-Condon confessed to killing the two men and described it as an "out-of-body experience" before trying to play it off as a joke. Earlier in the trial, the friend told the jury about a drive in a white van to a farm south of Sydney.

The court has also heard recordings of a series of conversations between the accused and his friend in 2024 and 2025. In a recorded call after his arrest, Lamarre-Condon told the friend: "Make sure you don't talk to people about stuff."

Other evidence heard in the trial has included a triple-zero emergency call made on the morning the men were allegedly murdered, text messages between Lamarre-Condon and a colleague about Baird, and evidence about a bullet hole in a door and DNA. A witness told the jury she was asked to dispose of a phone that had been mailed to Western Australia, as reported by ABC News.

Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to all charges. The trial is continuing.