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The accused has returned to the witness box today for further cross-examination by Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC.
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accused → accuse → Hatfield
The former NSW police officer has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder over the deaths of Jesse Baird, 26, a former TV presenter, and Luke Davies, 29, a Qantas flight attendant.
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officer → plead → Baird
There is no dispute that the men died of gunshot wounds from his police-issued pistol on February 19, 2024, and that the accused disposed of the bodies on February 22, 2024.
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accused → be → February
The Crown alleges that Lamarre-Condon planned to kill Baird after developing an obsessive and jealous infatuation with him and that he killed Davies, Baird’s boyfriend, to eliminate a witness to his crime.
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he → allege → crime
The defence case is that Lamarre-Condon acted in self-defence.
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Condon → act → defence
The 31-year-old has told the court he had his police pistol with him because he had contemplated taking his own life the previous night over work-related trauma.
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he → tell → trauma
This is the accused’s recent evidence:
- He denied that he was referring to harming or killing Baird when he texted the former TV presenter on November 18, 2023: “You don’t need to worry about seeing me out etc because you won’t exist and no further conversation needs to take place.”
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conversation → accuse → place
Baird had broken up with him on November 16.
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Baird → break → November
The accused told the court that he was referring to acknowledging him only.
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he → accuse → him
- Lamarre-Condon said that it was partly true when he claimed he had cancer in a message he sent to Baird from his friend’s Instagram account later in November.
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he → say → November
A naturopathic doctor in Bondi Junction had told him at the end of October or early November 2023 that a lump on his shoulder appeared to be “a form of sporadic cancer”, he said.
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he → tell → cancer
- He said the doctor recommended he get a biopsy.
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he → say → biopsy
“I did not follow through with the biopsy,” he said.
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he → follow → biopsy
He said he did alternative therapies that he had sourced online.
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he → say → that
- He admitted to throwing Baird’s phone off a bridge to destroy potentially incriminating evidence after he died.
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he → admit → evidence
- The accused also admitted to “gaslighting” Baird when he denied that he had posted an Instagram story on November 9, 2023, that falsely implied Baird had sent him flowers.
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Baird → accuse → flowers
He said he later admitted the truth.
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he → say → truth
Lamarre-Condon told the court that he limited the audience for the story one person, namely, a man that Baird had been seeing at this time.
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Baird → tell → time
- He rejected a suggestion by the prosecutor that his “unrequited love [for Baird] turned into an obsession”.
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love → reject → obsession
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