kill the occupants.<\/a><\/p>\nBaird’s mother Helen and sister Kourtnee gave at times tearful evidence in the NSW Supreme Court trial on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old relayed concerns about Lamarre-Condon’s growing obsessions after they dated briefly in the summer of 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n
“Jesse would be at the gym … he would receive messages (from Lamarre-Condon) saying ‘you looked really good in the gym tonight’,” Kourtnee Baird said.<\/p>\n
“He was fearful, he was scared.”<\/p>\n
In contrast, Baird’s mother only met Davies once but could tell how taken her son and his new partner were, the jury heard.<\/p>\n
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Lamarre-Condon, 31, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Baird and his new partner Luke Davies. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n
“It was early days but they were both smitten with each other … they were great together,” Helen Baird testified.<\/p>\n
Baird, who also worked as an AFL goal umpire, sent his mother of a photo of him and Davies at a Pink concert, saying “Luke’s my boyfriend”.<\/p>\n
“I sent a big love heart and said ‘I’m so happy for both of you’,” she said through tears.<\/p>\n
Less than two weeks later, Lamarre-Condon entered Baird’s Paddington house armed with his police pistol and heavily disguised with a motorcycle helmet.<\/p>\n
The killer’s barrister on Tuesday told jurors the senior constable was there to collect belongings and didn’t want to be recognised.<\/p>\n
He armed himself as he was not allowed to leave it unattended in his car, as per police protocol, John Stratton SC said.<\/p>\n
The defence would argue a struggle ensued after Lamarre-Condon was surprised by the presence of Baird in the kitchen.<\/p>\n
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Police bosses are now under fire themselves, as tributes and tears flow for Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
The police officer’s gun then went off twice, killing the 26-year-old, the jury was told.<\/p>\n
Baird did not recognise the accused because of his disguise, Stratton said.<\/p>\n
After the struggle, the gun flew across the room, the officer’s barrister said.<\/p>\n
A call to triple zero was made from the house where operators heard someone say “Get out, f*** off” followed by a shot, the jury was told on Monday.<\/p>\n
While the Crown alleges the call was made by Davies moments before he was shot, Lamarre-Condon’s lawyer said his client made it.<\/p>\n
Davies emerged from the bedroom holding a knife, picked up the discarded gun and a second deadly struggle occurred, the defence would argue.<\/p>\n
“He never planned to kill or ever cause any harm to anyone …” Stratton said of the defendant.<\/p>\n
“His case was it was in self-defence.”<\/p>\n
Lamarre-Condon’s barrister conceded his client had done some “stupid things” when the brief relationship between he and Baird ended in April 2023.<\/p>\n
Baird treated it more casually than the police officer, jurors have heard.<\/p>\n
The officer does not dispute he looked through his ex’s phone and deleted contacts and text messages.<\/p>\n
Lamarre-Condon also allegedly abused his position as a police officer to obtain CCTV from a pub to see who Baird was meeting.<\/p>\n
But Stratton disputes the senior constable exhibited threatening behaviours before the fatal incident in the Paddington house<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC used the last hour of his opening address on Tuesday to claim crucial evidence inside the house was discovered on the eve of trial.<\/p>\n
A bullet hole in the bedroom door was found concealed with putty, fresh paint and a stick-on hook when officers re-examined the scene in July, Hatfield said.<\/p>\n
“The firearm was discharged close to the door with Luke Davies on the other side of it,” the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
The NSW Supreme Court trial continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV presenter Jesse Baird told his mother and sister he was worried about his killer’s behaviour in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-609429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}