{"id":933939,"date":"2026-10-19T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933939\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:38:14","slug":"beau-lamarre-condon-accused-killer-rang-friend-month-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933939\/","title":{"rendered":"Beau Lamarre-Condon: Accused killer rang friend month after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former senior constable Beau Lamarre-Condon had dinner and a walk with a friend to whom he allegedly confessed to murdering two people a day earlier, a jury has heard.<\/p>\n<p>Lamarre-Condon, 31, has pleaded not guilty to the February 2024 murders of his ex Jesse Baird, 26, and Luke Davies, 29, saying the two men died in separate violent struggles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Beau Lamarre-Condon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/4a8cd54bb64940b69a1eddd78e447190aafdd4bfa58a8df5d686c64b765b3ea7.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Beau Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The former officer entered Baird&#8217;s house armed with his police pistol and disguised as a food delivery rider before the two men were fatally shot.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday afternoon, the 15-member NSW Supreme Court jury was shown multiple CCTV clips of Lamarre-Condon&#8217;s movements on February 20, the day after the two men died.<\/p>\n<p>After being seen at Bunnings Alexandria buying a power drill and multiple items of clothing, Lamarre-Condon allegedly drove south.<\/p>\n<p>He picked up a friend, who is yet to give evidence, and drove to Cronulla where the pair had dinner at Sushi Train, the footage shows.<\/p>\n<p>The jury heard earlier in the trial that Lamarre-Condon had allegedly confessed the killings to the friend the previous day and later sent him a text reading: &#8220;I should get an Oscar&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is the same friend the Crown alleges was with the accused when he bought a surfboard bag at a sports store two days before allegedly murdering Baird.<\/p>\n<p>Having finished dinner, the pair can be seen walking on the Cronulla promenade before the footage shows the officer driving his friend home.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown alleges Lamarre-Condon tells the friend he needs to find a skip bin before CCTV shows the pair pulling into the car park of Cronulla Bowling Club.<\/p>\n<p>In the footage, the friend can be seen getting out of the passenger side of the car, opening the lid of the skip bin and getting back in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Lamarre-Condon returned to the bin later that night to dump the bloodied personal items belonging to Baird and Davies, the jury has heard.<\/p>\n<p>The trip to Cronulla was not the last time Lamarre-Condon would allegedly involve a friend in the aftermath of the killings.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the jury will hear from a witness who is alleged to have travelled to Bungonia with Lamarre-Condon on a trip where he attempted to dump the men&#8217;s bodies.<\/p>\n<p>A month later, one of the senior constable&#8217;s friends and colleagues received a phone call from an unknown number, yet a familiar voice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dayna, it&#8217;s Beau,&#8221; Senior Constable Dayna Schagen recalled the accused saying when she answered after 9pm on a Monday<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the f&#8212;, why are you calling me?&#8221; she asked Lamarre-Condon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just wanted to tell you I love you,&#8221; Lamarre-Condon said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f0a8f057f3efb5c9a7f7f7879481355493d5bd594603de5535b27d5719f44e02.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Footage released by the court of Beau Lamarre-Condon wearing a helmet and carrying an Uber Eats bag.\u00a09News<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before you do anything &#8230; not everything in the news is true, it will all come out in court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schagen said she immediately cut off the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You killed two people &#8230; why do you think I would ever want to speak to you again?&#8221; she said before hanging up.<\/p>\n<p>The officer, who testified about the conversation in Lamarre-Condon&#8217;s NSW Supreme Court trial on Monday, said she had been close friends with the accused before his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>After the call on March 28, she said she texted her superior officer an account of the conversation and gave a statement about its contents.<\/p>\n<p>The phone Lamarre-Condon used to make the call belonged to his friend Jodie Parker, who lived in Queensland, the jury heard.<\/p>\n<p>A fear of being monitored permeated Lamarre-Condon&#8217;s thoughts well before he allegedly murdered the two men, the jury heard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ace68af6dc915215378f2938ec0154f15dbb70a99e4ffcd2dd23c79499f1794d.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Lamarre-Condon is accused of murdering his ex partner Jesse Baird (left) and his new boyfriend Luke Davies.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Schagen said the accused would regularly ask to move their conversations to encrypted app Signal when discussing police matters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anything to do with work was not discussed over text &#8230; he was very apprehensive about work and them hearing our conversations,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The trial continues.<\/p>\n<p>Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1800respect.org.au\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\">1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former senior constable Beau Lamarre-Condon had dinner and a walk with a friend to whom he allegedly confessed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-933939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933939","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=933939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}