Lamarre-Condon Denies Making Fake Grindr Account of Jesse Baird

Beau Lamarre-Condon has denied making a fake dating app account of Jesse Baird after their breakup, telling a New South Wales court that claims he did so had "never happened." He gave that answer under cross-examination, the questioning of a witness by the opposing side's lawyer, during his double murder trial.

Lamarre-Condon is accused of fatally shooting Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon in Baird's Paddington home in Sydney on 19 February 2024. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter, a serious form of unlawful entry into a property. The trial is being heard in the NSW Supreme Court before Justice Natalie Adams.

The fake account question arose earlier in the proceedings. A friend of Lamarre-Condon gave evidence that he had made fake profiles of Baird on apps such as Grindr, a dating and social app for gay and bisexual men. Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC, who acts for the prosecution, then cross-examined Lamarre-Condon on whether he had told that friend he had made a fake Grindr account in relation to Baird.

Lamarre-Condon, who was in the witness box for a fifth day, said he had tried to create an account using an email address he believed belonged to a man Baird had been seeing. He told the court he was checking whether the address was already in use on the app, which he said would indicate whether that man was using the service. He said he did not make an account, or operate one, as that man.

Asked whether the email belonged to that man, Lamarre-Condon said he could not confirm it was entirely the man's address. He described it as something he had seen on social media.

Guardian Australia reported the exchange on 11 November 2026.