Updated April 29, 2026 — 3:55pm,first published 3:01pm
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The mother of Beau Lamarre-Condon, the police officer accused of the double murder of couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, has been charged by police.
Coleen Lamarre, 63, was arrested in her home suburb of Balmain on Wednesday morning.
Coleen Lamarre leaves court last year after her son, alleged double killer Beau Lamarre-Condon, denied murdering Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Sitthixay Ditthavong
She has been accused of allegedly attempting to influence a key witness to change their evidence.
She was taken to Day Street Police Station and charged with doing an act to pervert the course of justice.
Lamarre, a former senior officer in the NSW Police radio division, was refused bail to appear in court on Thursday and will spend the night in the cells.
Her son, Beau, was a serving police officer who allegedly used his police-issued Glock pistol to kill Baird and Davies at a home in Paddington.
He handed himself in to police on February 23, 2024, four days after allegedly trying to dispose of the couple’s bodies, first in a dam on a remote property and then a bush grave when the bodies wouldn’t sink.
Beau Lamarre-Condon is awaiting trial for the alleged double murder.Facebook
Lamarre-Condon has remained in custody ever since his arrest, sacking multiple lawyers in the lead up to his trial, which has been marred by repeated delays.
He was first represented by solicitor John Walford, then the publicly funded Legal Aid lawyers, who withdrew last July and handed the case to solicitor Ben Archbold.
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Lamarre-Condon’s mother was in court, and swarmed by media, after her son indicated he would fight the murder and aggravated break-and-enter charges.
In October, Lamarre-Condon announced to a pretrial hearing he wanted “the actual truth” to be revealed and said he had offered to plead to the manslaughter of Baird “and Jesse Baird only”.
He then accused police and prosecutors of being corrupt.
“I will not be silenced,” he announced to the court.
Lamarre-Condon’s trial is set down for 21 September in the NSW Supreme Court.
A police document, obtained by the Herald, revealed Baird and his new partner, Davies, were drinking with friends at the iconic Beresford Hotel the evening before they died.
Jesse Baird (left) and Luke Davies.Instagram
Investigators suspect Lamarre-Condon had stalked Baird, who had complained about a “shadowy figure” at the foot of his bed.
Lamarre-Condon allegedly arrived at the Paddington address, armed with his gun, in the 10 hours after Baird and Davies left the pub on Sunday evening.
The next day, Baird’s housemates spotted two surfboard bags in the terrace’s rear courtyard.
Lamarre-Condon allegedly tried to sink the bags in a dam on a property 200 kilometres from Sydney, having loaded them into a rental van, before dumping them nearby.
Police allege he sought refuge with a friend in Newcastle and made chilling comments.
“This morning I was floating in a dam,” Lamarre-Condon allegedly told his friend.
“There was a dam. The body wouldn’t sink.
“I am me, but it’s not me.”
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