From the Guardian · · 2m
Police officer asked friend to dispose of phone, court hears
Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly sought help destroying evidence after the deaths of two Sydney men, a Western Australian woman told the NSW supreme court.
In brief
Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly sought help destroying evidence after the deaths of two Sydney men, a Western Australian woman told the NSW supreme court. A police officer accused of murdering two Sydney men allegedly asked a friend in Western Australia to throw a phone into water and claimed he had been set up, a court…
Officer accused of double murder
Beau Lamarre-Condon, thirty-one, is accused of fatally shooting Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon in Baird's Paddington home on nineteen February twenty twenty-four.
How they met and bonded
Stacey Parker first met Lamarre-Condon in twenty ten while celebrity hunting for American rapper Pitbull outside Channel seven studios during Sunrise filming in Sydney. They exchanged numbers and continued meeting when Parker travelled to Sydney.
Shared views on vaccines
Parker told the court they would speak about the Covid pandemic.She said she did not agree with injections and attended protests.
“He just told me it was devil's work.”
Switch to encrypted messaging
On twelve February twenty twenty-four, Lamarre-Condon asked Parker if they could switch to messaging on the encrypted messaging app Signal. The next day, Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were allegedly killed.
Request to dispose of phone
On twenty February twenty twenty-four, a day after the alleged murders, Lamarre-Condon called Parker and asked if she could dispose of a phone.
“He told me that he'd stolen some police files from the commissioner to do with Covid and he'd wanted me to get rid of a phone.”
Specific instructions for the phone
Lamarre-Condon asked Parker to turn the phone on for about ten minutes so it could ping, then turn it off and dispose of it thirty to forty kilometres from her home.
Claims of being set up
Two days later, Lamarre-Condon called Parker again saying police had searched for him and he had been set up for two guys missing in Sydney.He used to know one of them.
Parker learns the truth
Soon after, a friend sent Parker a news article saying Baird and Davies had disappeared and Lamarre-Condon was wanted for questioning.
Final messages from victim's phone
Baird's friend Jemma Barge received a message from his phone the day after he was killed saying he might be going to Perth.
“I was under the impression something had already occurred before this text message had been sent to me.”
The main idea
A police officer accused of murdering two Sydney men allegedly asked a friend in Western Australia to throw a phone into water and claimed he had been set up, a court heard.
