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Lamarre-Condon describes relationship to Jesse Baird
The police officer is responding to questions about the beginning of their relationship:
For the months of October and November 2022 it was friends with a sexual relationship. When we would meet up it was of the sexual nature. By December 2022 that’s when we began going on romantic dates.
Recalling occasions when he had to deal with dead bodies, Lamarre-Condon has spoken about a co-worker who had shot himself in the head.
He recalls the last conversation they had:
“I said ‘How are you?’ and he told me he was good. Nothing appeared out of normal to me, nothing about his behaviour suggested what he was about to do.
“[He] went to his desk took out his gun whilst off duty and shot himself in the head at work.”
Lamarre-Condon’s co-workers later found their deceased colleague, the court heard.
Lamarre-Condon has accused his former supervisor of making homophobic remarks while he was an openly gay police officer.
“He would say things such as, ‘I used to bash gay people while in Jindabyne,’” he told the court.
During one occasion when responding to a domestic violence report, the man allegedly said, “Let’s go get these fucking faggots.”
Beau Lamarre-Condon begins giving evidence
Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has taken the witness box in his double murder trial.
He is giving evidence in the NSW supreme court in front of a 15-person jury, as the first witness for the defence.
Wearing a light grey suit, a dark coloured tie and a white collared shirt, Lamarre-Condon took an oath and vowed to tell the truth.
Welcome to Guardian Australia’s coverage of the Beau Lamarre-Condon trial.
Lamarre-Condon is giving evidence this morning in his high-profile double murder case in Sydney.
The 31-year-old is accused of fatally shooting couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.
He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter.
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