{"id":909689,"date":"2026-09-29T10:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909689\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:48:16","slug":"beau-lamarre-condon-spent-2000-on-cleaning-items-cable-ties-and-quick-set-concrete-after-alleged-murders-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909689\/","title":{"rendered":"Beau Lamarre-Condon spent $2,000 on cleaning items, cable ties and quick-set concrete after alleged murders | Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beau Lamarre-Condon spent almost $2,000 on bleach, quick-set concrete, gloves and other items after allegedly murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, according to receipts shown to the court.<\/p>\n

Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally shooting the couple with his police service weapon in Baird\u2019s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.<\/p>\n

He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter.<\/p>\n

The prosecution alleges Lamarre-Condon began cleaning up the crime scene immediately after the shootings.<\/p>\n

Receipts shown to the court last week and later released revealed he spent more than $1,300 across four different Bunnings locations between 19 and 23 February.<\/p>\n

During the visits, Lamarre-Condon purchased items including gloves, bleach, cable ties, tape, garbage bags, a wheelbarrow and quick-set concrete.<\/p>\n

Receipts from sporting goods store Decathlon show he bought weights and paddle board covers.<\/p>\n

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In the days before the alleged crime, Lamarre-Condon spent $300 to hire a car under his mother\u2019s name, using the vehicle to drive to Paddington.<\/p>\n

The surfboard bag that would be used to contain a body and was purchased two days before the alleged murders, cost $85.<\/p>\n

In total, Lamarre-Condon spent more than $2,300 between 17 and 23 February.<\/p>\n

After cleaning Baird\u2019s home, Lamarre-Condon allegedly dumped Baird and Davies\u2019 bloodied belongings in a skip bin at the Cronulla Bowls Club, the prosecution alleged.<\/p>\n

A statement from Craig Scott, a greenkeeper at the club, was read out in the New South Wales<\/a> supreme court on Tuesday. It detailed how Scott and a co-worker discovered the belongings after arriving at work on 21 February 2024 and noticing the lid of the skip bin was propped open with rubbish.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw several black plastic bin bags \u2013 I definitely remember those bags were not there the day before,\u201d Scott said in the statement read to the jury.<\/p>\n

\u201cI opened one of the bags and removed [a] piece of brown clothing \u2026 it had red stains on it \u2013 it looked like dried blood to me. [We] both thought something suspicious had gone on.\u201d<\/p>\n

A court sketch of Beau Lamarre-Condon in the NSW supreme court. Illustration: Rocco Fazzari\/AAP<\/p>\n

As they searched the bin, Scott and his co-worker found a silver watch, a leather pouch and a Qantas ID card, the court was told.<\/p>\n

Wooden drawers, various shoes, clothing and AFL shorts \u2013 still in their plastic packaging \u2013 were also discovered.<\/p>\n

Hours after the contents of the skip bin were reported, two detectives travelled to Baird\u2019s home, the court heard.<\/p>\n

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Body-worn camera footage from the visit<\/a> was played to the jury on Monday and released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The video showed the officers being met at the door by three cleaners, who had been hired by a housemate because Baird was due to move out that week.<\/p>\n

Using Google Translate to communicate with the Portuguese-speaking cleaners, the police asked to look around before telling them to \u201cstop cleaning\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not in trouble,\u201d an officer says in the video shown to the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019re just now to declare this a crime scene. We\u2019ve just got information that there might be some evidence for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members of the police crime scene investigation team later attended the Paddington terrace.<\/p>\n

The jury on Tuesday was shown more than 200 photos from the investigation, including of walls, flooring and a fired bullet with traces of blood.<\/p>\n

Sen Sgt Bronwyn Lansley told the court the bullet travelled through a source of blood before penetrating the wooden flooring.<\/p>\n

An image taken from the area beneath the house showed a \u201csignificant amount of blood has flowed down the joist and saturated the timber\u201d, she said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe CCTV footage revealed in week one of Beau Lamarre-Condon\u2019s trial \u2013 video<\/p>\n

Defence lawyer John Stratton SC said during his opening statement that Baird and Davies were fatally shot in \u201cself-defence\u201d following struggles with the policeman.<\/p>\n

Lamarre-Condon immediately began cleaning up the scene because he \u201cpanicked\u201d, the jury was told.<\/p>\n

The trial before Justice Natalie Adams continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beau Lamarre-Condon spent almost $2,000 on bleach, quick-set concrete, gloves and other items after allegedly murdering Jesse Baird…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-909689","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\/909689","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=909689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}