Lamarre-Condon captured on CCTV after alleged double murder

October 8, 2026 — 11:38amBeau Lamarre-Condon was captured on CCTV returning to the alleged crime scene hours after he is accused of murdering former Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, a court has heard.The footage was released by the NSW Supreme Court after it was played in the former police officer’s trial over the shooting deaths of Baird, 26, a former TV presenter, and Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies, 29.The Crown alleges the figure in the CCTV footage on February 19, 2024, is Beau Lamarre-Condon outside Jesse Baird’s Paddington home.NSW Supreme CourtThe police compilation of CCTV evidence from February 19, 2024, the day of the alleged murders, shows a figure in dark clothing outside Baird’s home at about 11pm, more than 12 hours after he died. According to the Crown, the man in the video is Lamarre-Condon.At that time, the court has heard, the bodies of Baird and Davies were in the courtyard of the Paddington terrace in surfboard bags.The accused is shown earlier in the day hiring a white van that was used to transport the men’s bodies from the home and paying cash for a surfboard bag.At 2.08pm on February 19, Lamarre-Condon allegedly visited Bunnings in Alexandria and spent $146.40 in cash on a bucket mop wringer, disposable gloves, microfibre cloths, bleach and garbage bags, among other items.Footage from Bunnings was no longer available by the time the transactions were identified, the court has heard, but a copy of the receipt was tendered in evidence.The 15-person jury heard on Wednesday that a friend of Lamarre-Condon, dubbed Elizabeth Kennedy in the proceedings, said in a statement to police on February 23, 2024, that she had driven with the accused to Goulburn in a van on February 21.Kennedy said she paid for an angle grinder at Bunnings Goulburn and the accused cut a padlock off the gate of a nearby farm.Her information triggered a days-long police search for the men’s bodies, including at a rural property where Lamarre-Condon tried unsuccessfully to sink the bodies in a dam.Homicide squad Detective Senior Constable Christine Abela testified on Wednesday that the men’s bodies were eventually found outside a Greek monastery on February 27.The prosecution case is that Lamarre-Condon planned to kill Baird, a former Network Ten producer and presenter, after developing an “obsessive and jealous infatuation” with him that escalated when Baird ended their casual relationship in November 2023.He allegedly killed Baird to eliminate a witness to his crime. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder.The defence does not dispute that the accused was at Baird’s home when the men died of gunshot wounds from his police-issued pistol and that he disposed of their bodies. However, it says the deaths were accidental and Lamarre-Condon acted in self-defence.The court has heard Lamarre-Condon visited a sports store in Westfield Miranda to buy a surfboard bag for $85 in cash about three hours after the alleged murders. He had bought an identical surfboard bag from the same store two days earlier.The Crown says the accused bought a further two bags on February 21 after he discovered the first two covers were not big enough to dispose of the men’s bodies.The jury was told the compilation of CCTV footage from February 19 bore some incorrect timestamps on the screen. Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC, said Lamarre-Condon had returned to Baird’s home at about 11pm rather than 10pm as shown in the footage.Former NSW police officer Ben Higginson told the court on Friday that he had a conversation with Lamarre-Condon on February 18, the day before the alleged murders, about criminal investigation techniques, and had told him “it can be a bit more difficult to trace cash”.Higginson said they had also discussed the 2023 murder of Sydneysider Lilie James, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend Paul Thijssen.Higginson said Lamarre-Condon seemed “pretty blase” in the conversation and had said Thijssen was “stupid for doing this on CCTV”.Higginson said in a statement that he did not regard the conversation between police officers as unusual at the time.The accused allegedly used his police-issued Glock pistol to shoot both men in Baird’s share house on the morning of February 19, and cleaned the home while the journalist’s flatmates were out.CCTV footage played in his trial captures Lamarre-Condon buying the first surfboard bag with a friend two days before the alleged murders. The friend is not accused of wrongdoing.The Crown alleges the first bag was bought as part of the accused’s plan to murder Baird.The Crown has foreshadowed that the court will hear evidence that Lamarre-Condon asked the friend who accompanied him on the first shopping trip whether he would fit inside the surfboard bag. The accused appears to hold the bag up against his friend in the CCTV footage.The friend allegedly replied “probably not”, according to the prosecution’s opening address to the jury, and the accused said: “I’ll grab this one instead, it should be big enough.” According to both the Crown and the defence, Lamarre-Condon was disguised as a delivery rider and had his police-issued gun with him when he entered Baird’s home. He cleaned the house after the men died and disposed of their bodies in two layers of surfboard bags.However, the defence case is that Lamarre-Condon went to the Paddington home to pick up some of his belongings and did not expect anybody to be there. A struggle ensued in which his gun accidentally went off twice, killing Baird, and Davies accidentally shot himself in a second struggle, the defence says.The accused’s barrister, John Stratton, SC, told the jury in his opening address that Lamarre-Condon had his gun with him because he had been trained not to leave it unattended in his vehicle. However, the Crown case is that he should not have been carrying the weapon because he was not rostered on to work.Stratton said Lamarre-Condon dumped the bodies because he “panicked considerably”.The trial continues.Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or the Men’s Referral Service on 1300 766 491.Start the day with a summary of the day’s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter.More:Lamarre-Condon trialCourtsCrimeCourtsCrimePaddingtonPoliceFrom our partners