Beau Lamarre-Condon pleads not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

Beau Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, who were allegedly killed in an inner-city terrace house on 19 February 2024. A not guilty plea is a formal denial of the charge, and the case will now proceed to trial.

The case has drawn attention to a message sent by a serving police officer. According to The Guardian, NSW Police Constable Hayley Keefe sent Mr Lamarre-Condon an Instagram message on 21 February 2024. The message read: "Hey hun … can you please contact the crime manager at eastern suburbs asap when you get a chance?" Constable Keefe had been asked by a crime manager to get in touch with him through his personal Instagram account. The message remained unread, and she later deleted it.

Police had been trying to reach Mr Lamarre-Condon for four days before he turned himself in, according to the same report. On 22 February he made a three-minute phone call to police in which he said he was not avoiding them and would come in the following day.

He later led officers to a rural property, where the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were found in surfboard bags.