Former Officer Admits Throwing Jesse Baird's Phone Off Bridge, Murder Trial Hears

Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has admitted in the New South Wales Supreme Court that he threw Jesse Baird's phone off a bridge to destroy evidence, according to The Guardian. He is on trial for the deaths of Baird and Luke Davies, and he has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors allege that Lamarre-Condon shot Baird and Davies with his police service weapon at Baird's home in Paddington, Sydney, on 19 February 2024. Davies was Baird's new partner. Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter, a serious offence involving unlawful entry into a property.

On the sixth day of his evidence, Lamarre-Condon was questioned about the phone. He told the court he threw it off Tom Uglys Bridge, near The Shire in Sydney's south, because he did not want to have any evidence of Jesse's phone on him. When Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC, who presents the case for the state, put to him that he had thrown the phone to destroy evidence that might incriminate him, Lamarre-Condon replied, "Essentially, yes."

Lamarre-Condon did not deny contacting his friend Stacey Parker in Western Australia to ask whether he could send her Baird's phone so she could throw it into a body of water. He did not end up mailing the phone to her.

He also denied deliberately deleting messages between himself and Baird, and photos of the two of them together, after his arrest in order to remove evidence of their relationship.

The trial is before Justice Natalie Adams and is continuing.