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A friend of Beau Lamarre-Condon has told a court the accused told him he had "killed people" and discussed shootings.
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he → tell → shootings
Mr Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in 2024.
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Condon → plead → 2024
The witness said the defendant also discussed throwing out bloodied clothes in a tip, the court heard.
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court → say → tip
Former Sydney police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon told a friend he had shot two people, asked for help cleaning up his "mess", and later joked he did not realise bodies would be heavy, a jury has heard.
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jury → tell → mess
Mr Lamarre-Condon is accused of shooting Jesse Baird and his boyfriend, Luke Davies, using his police pistol in Mr Baird's Paddington share house on February 19, 2024.
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Condon → accuse → February
The 31-year-old has pleaded not guilty and is arguing self-defence.
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old → plead → defence
A friend of Mr Lamarre-Condon on Friday told the Supreme Court trial the then-police officer called him in February 2024 and said he needed to speak with him, before arriving at the man's work in a hire car.
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he → tell → car
"He said … 'I've done something'," the witness told the court.
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witness → say → court
He said 'I've killed people'."
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I → say → people
The witness, whose identity cannot be reported due to a court order, gave evidence that he asked if he was kidding.
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he → report → evidence
He said the accused said it "didn't even feel like him" and felt like an "out-of-body experience".
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it → say → experience
'Pew pew' gun gesture
The friend recalled asking how it happened, and testified Mr Lamarre-Condon said it was with his gun, made a gun gesture with his hand, and said: "Pew pew."
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it → recall → pew
"He said, 'I shot the first one through the head and the second one through the door'," the witness told the court.
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witness → say → court
The witness said the accused told him he had waited outside for other tenants of the property to leave and entered the home.
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tenants → say → home
He gave evidence that the accused told him the second person was shot when he heard someone trying to call the police and "couldn't leave any witnesses".
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someone → give → witnesses
Mr Lamarre-Condon appeared "stressed and panicked", the court was told.
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court → appear → ?
He said the second person wasn't meant to be shot."
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person → say → ?
The witness said Mr Lamarre-Condon did not tell him who the two people were, but asked him to get the day off work "to help him clean up his mess", including lifting the bodies because "the bodies were heavy".
He said he was "in shock" but told the accused that he could not leave work.
'That's not a f***ing joke'
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That → say → work
Later, he received a FaceTime call from the accused who said he was joking, which the witness said left him "quite angry".
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witness → receive → him
"I said, 'That's not a f***ing joke, you're mentally f***ing with me, that's not funny at all'," he told jurors.
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he → say → jurors
"I was trying to figure out if this is a real thing or not."
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this → try → ?
In subsequent days they met up to have sushi in Cronulla, the court heard, and afterwards the witness said the defendant told him he needed to throw out bloodied clothes in a tip, before then suggesting a skip bin.
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he → meet → bin
The two stopped at a skip bin near a Cronulla bowls club and the friend got out to check how full it was, the court heard.
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court → stop → club
The jury has previously heard that possessions and clothes of Mr Baird and Mr Davies were found dumped in that skip bin.
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possessions → hear → bin
The witness said at one point, the defendant made a gesture to his legs and said they were sore.
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they → say → legs
He said: "I didn't realise bodies would be heavy."
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bodies → say → ?
Asked by the prosecutor about the defendant's tone, the witness replied: "In a joke type of manner".
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witness → ask → manner
He said at this stage he had not seen any news stories about a disappearance and remained uncertain whether the situation was real.
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situation → say → disappearance
He said he asked directly whether the person involved was Mr Baird, having previously spoken to Mr Lamarre-Condon about him in conversations about their exes, but the defendant "laughed and said no".
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defendant → say → exes
The witness said there was also a conversation where the defendant told him he planned to leave the bodies in water and use cement to weigh them down.
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he → say → them
He said the defendant spoke about "a mate's property" being a potential site.
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property → say → ?
The Crown alleges Mr Lamarre-Condon killed Mr Baird, having developed an obsessive and jealous infatuation with him after a casual romance in parts of 2023, and allegedly murdered Mr Baird to eliminate a witness.
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Condon → allege → witness
Mr Lamarre-Condon's lawyers have flagged that he will argue the two men died in separate struggles involving the pistol.
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men → flag → pistol
The bodies of Mr Baird and Mr Davies were found in rural Bungonia in surfboard bags eight days after the alleged murders.
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bodies → find → murders
The Crown alleges the defendant had initially made an unsuccessful attempt to sink them in a dam on a farm in the area.
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defendant → allege → area
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