Brett Hatfield, SC, has now delivered his opening address<\/a> to the jury, which sets out the prosecution\u2019s case. It must prove the offences beyond reasonable doubt.<\/p>\nToday, Hatfield showed the jury a CCTV image of Lamarre-Condon disguised as an Uber Eats rider outside Baird\u2019s home before the alleged murders, and played them footage recording the sound of three gunshots coinciding with the deaths of Baird and Davies.<\/p>\n
The Crown alleges that Lamarre-Condon developed \u201can obsessive and jealous infatuation\u201d with Baird after a short relationship that began in late 2022 and was ended for the first time by Baird in April 2023 and again in November 2023.<\/p>\n
The prosecution alleges that the murder of Baird was premeditated but that he killed Davies, Baird\u2019s new boyfriend, to eliminate a witness to his crime.<\/p>\n
However, Lamarre-Condon\u2019s defence barrister, John Stratton, SC, presented the jury with the defence case in his opening address on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He said that Lamarre-Condon went to Baird\u2019s home on February 19, 2024, to collect his belongings, including jewellery, and was disguised because he didn\u2019t want to \u201cgo through the embarrassment\u201d of seeing Baird.<\/p>\n
Stratton said Lamarre-Condon entered the home when nobody answered his knock at the door and was \u201csurprised by Jesse Baird\u201d, who \u201cunderstandably did not recognise him because he was still wearing the motorcycle helmet\u201d.The defence case is that the two men struggled and Lamarre-Condon\u2019s police gun went off twice and fatally wounded Baird.In the alleged struggle, the gun was \u201cflung into the loungeroom\u201d, Stratton said, and the accused picked up a mobile phone and started ringing Triple Zero.He encountered a second man, Davies, and \u201cMr Davies was now holding the gun\u201d, the defence said. Stratton said Lamarre-Condon \u201cgrabbed Mr Davies by the arm and pushed the gun away from himself and towards Mr Davies\u201d.The defence said that in the struggle that followed Davies \u201cpulled the trigger and fatally shot himself\u201d.Stratton said that Lamarre-Condon had entered Baird\u2019s home on an earlier occasion in August 2023 using a key that Baird had given him. Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to aggravated break and entry to Baird\u2019s home and stealing Baird\u2019s wallet and phone.<\/p>\n
Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or the Men\u2019s Referral Service on 1300 766 491.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Beau Lamarre-Condon\u2019s double murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-900907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Beau Lamarre-Condon (left) is accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. <\/p>\n