Newly released CCTV footage shows accused murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon paying cash for a drill, gumboots, dust masks, and work clothes at Bunnings, before going for a sushi train dinner with a friend the day after he allegedly killed Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
The footage – which was played before the jury at Mr Lamarre-Condon’s double-murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court earlier this week – shows the alleged killer cop traversing Sydney on February 20, 2024.
Mr Lamarre-Condon, 31, allegedly broke into Baird’s Paddington home on the morning of February 19 and shot him and his boyfriend, Davies, with his police pistol.
He then allegedly put their bodies in surfboard bags, covered them with a tarp and left them in the courtyard of the house.
The court has previously seen footage of Mr Lamarre-Condon returning to Baird’s home on the day of the alleged murders with cleaning products and tarpaulin, and clips of a white van he rented being driven to the back of the house late at night, where he allegedly collected Baird and Davies’ bodies.
Just after 6am on February 20, he was captured on CCTV withdrawing $500 from an ATM in Balmain, where he lived.
He was then recorded driving to Baird’s street in Paddington, through the nearby suburb of Kensington, then to Bunnings in Alexandria.
CCTV shows Mr Lamarre-Condon asking for help as he searches for all the items he needs. A receipt tendered in evidence shows he paid cash for a drill, drill bit, tradies’ pants, gumboots, a zip-up hoodie and dust masks.
After making another trip to Baird’s street in Paddington and stopping in at Miranda police station, Mr Lamarre-Condon was spotted taking a friend – who cannot be named for legal reasons – to get sushi in Cronulla.
The friend is due to give evidence in the trial. Prosecutors say he will testify that, just hours after the alleged murders, Mr Lamarre-Condon told him he’d killed two people, saying he didn’t want to kill the second person but he couldn’t leave any witnesses, then asked him to help get rid of the bodies. The friend refused.
Hours later, Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly texted his friend, saying, “I should get an Oscar, hey”, suggesting he was lying about having killed the two men.
On their way out of Cronulla, Mr Lamarre-Condon and his friend were captured stopping next to a skip bin at Club Cronulla.
The friend is seen getting out of Mr Lamarre-Condon’s Tesla, opening the skip bin, looking inside, then getting back into the car before they drive away.
It is the crown’s case that Mr Lamarre-Condon was scoping out the bin as a dump site for Baird and Davies’s belongings, and that he returned late that night to dispose of the items.
Greenkeepers at Club Cronulla discovered a collection of bloodied personal items belonging to Baird and Davies in the skip bin on the morning of February 21 and reported it to police.
It was this discovery that prompted detectives to go to Baird’s home and investigate his apparent disappearance.
The young couple’s bodies were found on the fence line of a Greek monastery nearly 200km south of Baird’s Paddington home on February 27, 2024.
It is the crown’s case that Mr Lamarre-Condon formed an obsessive infatuation with Baird during their short relationship and spent months stalking the 26-year-old television presenter before he allegedly killed him and Davies.
Mr Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of domestic violence-related murder, claiming he acted in self-defence, and one count of aggravated break and enter.
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