Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon continues giving evidence at Sydney murder trial

Beau Lamarre-Condon, a 31-year-old former police officer, returned to the witness box on 5 November 2026 to continue giving evidence at his trial in the New South Wales Supreme Court. He is charged with murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, and he has pleaded not guilty.

The trial is being heard by Justice Natalie Adams and a jury of 15 people. New South Wales is the Australian state whose capital is Sydney. Lamarre-Condon has denied two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter, the term for unlawfully entering a building with aggravating circumstances.

The prosecution alleges that Baird and Davies were killed with Lamarre-Condon's police service weapon in Baird's home in Paddington on 19 February 2024. Davies was Baird's boyfriend, according to ABC News. Both men were members of Sydney's LGBTQ+ community.

Lamarre-Condon has given his own account from the witness box. He told the court he signed out his firearm for a shift on 16 February 2024, three days before the alleged killings. He said his relationship with Baird was not exclusive and that he was still seeing other people. He also admitted that he entered Baird's home and went through Baird's phone, as ABC News reported on 5 November.

He told the jury that he fired his gun at a tree in the Royal National Park to test how loud it was, while he was thinking of taking his own life. He said he placed a brown paper bag over the firearm before firing a second shot in the park.

A friend of Lamarre-Condon's told the trial that he once asked her whether she would help hide a body, according to ABC News. Earlier in the proceedings, a bullet hole in a door and DNA evidence were examined closely, as the Guardian reported in October.

In mid-October the jury visited the Paddington terrace where Baird and Davies died, ABC News reported.