Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n On Monday, the friend was back in the witness stand, while a recording was played to the court of a conversation the friend recorded on behalf of police when he visited Lamarre-Condon in prison.\n <\/p>\n At the beginning of the conversation, Lamarre-Condon asked the friend to turn around and show he was not wearing a wire.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re so paranoid,\u201d the friend said to Lamarre-Condon in the recording played to the jury. \u201cCalm down.\u201d<\/p>\n The friend said to Lamarre-Condon during the prison visit: \u201cYou put me in a scenario that\u2019s very difficult for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Lamarre-Condon apologised, stating, \u201cI fully take accountability that you\u2019re involved because of me now,\u201d the court heard on Monday.<\/p>\n The friend, in the recording, said he was upset because Lamarre-Condon had said he was dumb. In response, Lamarre-Condon said \u201cYou\u2019re not dumb OK,\u201d before then telling his friend: \u201cYou\u2019re not self aware in the way that I am.\u201d<\/p>\n Lamarre-Condon accused his friend during the conversation of lying \u201cabout so much shit\u201d in his statement to police. He said his friend was wrong to recollect that Lamarre-Condon had said Davies was killed to eliminate a witness and in fact he\u2019d acted in self-defence.<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t you dare switch up,\u201d the friend responded during the prison visit.<\/p>\n Artwork for a memorial event for Luke Davies (left) and Jesse Baird in 2024. Photograph: Nordacious<\/p>\n Lamarre-Condon in the recording told his friend his entry into Baird\u2019s home was not break and enter because Baird had got a key cut for him. He admitted that entering the Paddington terrace was trespass but claimed it was normal to return to a former partner\u2019s home to retrieve belongings.\n <\/p>\n He said he did not knock on the door to get the belongings back because he didn\u2019t want to be slapped with an apprehended violence order, but he did call out hello when he walked inside.<\/p>\n Lamarre-Condon, in the recording played to the jury, told his friend: \u201cIf I had planned to do this mate, I\u2019d be cool, calm, collected.\u201d<\/p>\n He said he would have had \u201ccleaning ready to go\u201d and he would not have used a police firearm.<\/p>\n \u201cI can get [another gun] for $10,000, I could have done all these things,\u201d he said in the recording played to court.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a>Free newsletter |When needed<\/p>\n Sign up to Breaking News Australia<\/p>\n Get the most important news as it breaks<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Lamarre-Condon told the friend he took him to the Royal national park before the murders in early 2024 and shot his gun to test how loud the gunshots were because he was planning to return there to take his own life.<\/p>\n He told the friend during the recording that he had been suffering from suicidality from trauma at work.<\/p>\n During the phone call, the friend can be heard threatening to leave multiple times.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat you\u2019re telling me mightn\u2019t be the truth,\u201d the friend said.<\/p>\n During cross-examination, Lamarre-Condon\u2019s lawyer, John Stratton SC, suggested it was the friend\u2019s idea to sink Bair and Davies\u2019 bodies in a dam.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m 100% sure it wasn\u2019t me,\u201d the friend told the court on Monday.<\/p>\n He said he warned Lamarre-Condon the bodies would float. \u201cI gave him a scientific fact that he [could] search up on Google in his own time,\u201d the witness said.<\/p>\n The friend admitted he told Lamarre-Condon \u2013 after the pair had discussed if the bodies should be taken to a national park \u2013 that bushland was nearby in the Royal national park.<\/p>\n The friend denied Stratton\u2019s suggestion that he had given false evidence and was influenced by media reporting.<\/p>\n The trial before Justice Natalie Adams continues.<\/p>\n In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123. 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