Claims extracted
21
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 21 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
68/100
BBC News's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
29
Crime & Law
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
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A former police officer accused of using his work gun to kill a Sydney couple was driven by a "jealous infatuation" with his ex, a court has heard.
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court → publish → ex
Beaumont Lamarre-Condon, 31, has pleaded not guilty to two charges of domestic violence-related murder and one of aggravated break and enter.
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Condon → plead → break
Prosecutors allege Lamarre-Condon shot his ex-partner, 26-year-old TV presenter Jesse Baird, and Baird's new partner Luke Davies, a 29-year-old Qantas flight attendant, at a home in the Sydney suburb of Paddington in 2024.
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Condon → allege → 2024
The couple's bodies were found in a rural area 200km away, hidden in surfboard bags.
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bodies → find → bags
The trial is expected to run for three months.
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trial → expect → months
In his opening address on Monday, prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC described how Lamarre-Condon had developed an "obsessive and jealous infatuation" with Baird after a brief romantic relationship.
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Condon → open → relationship
It manifested itself in a "range of compulsive behaviour", Hatfield said, which escalated when Baird ended all contact in November 2023.
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Baird → manifest → November
The barrister said Lamarre-Condon used a friend's phone to message Baird and claim he had cancer, stalked his ex-lover, and tampered with his car in the weeks after their break-up.
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he → say → up
On the day of the alleged murders, Lamarre-Condon had set his alarm for 04.30 local time, Hatfield claimed, and sent a text to a friend which read: "I'll try to call you tonight and update you... there's no sign I'm doing it".
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I → allege → it
Lamarre-Condon then switched to a burner phone, picked up a rental car and waited outside Baird's home for three hours dressed as an Uber driver, the prosecution alleged.
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prosecution → switch → driver
He had previously bought a surfboard bag to dispose of Baird's body, Hatfield said.
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Hatfield → buy → body
After entering Baird's home with a key he had previously obtained, Lamarre-Condon shot Baird in the kitchen and then killed Davies in the bedroom as he was trying to call emergency services for help, the court was told.
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court → enter → help
Hatfield said that the accused had planned Baird's murder, and killed Davies so as to "eliminate him as a witness".
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accused → say → witness
In the hours and days after the alleged killings, Lamarre-Condon tried to cover up the murder, Hatfield said, including sending messages from Baird's mobile phone.
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Hatfield → allege → phone
The aggravated break and enter charge that Lamarre-Condon is facing refers to an incident in August 2023 where it's alleged he broke into Baird's home and stole his phone and wallet.
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he → face → phone
Hatfield also told the court that Lamarre-Condon had earlier offered to plead guilty to a single charge of manslaughter relating to Baird's death but this was rejected.
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this → tell → death
Police were first alerted to the alleged murders after bloodied items belonging to Baird and Davies were found in a bin in Sydney's south.
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items → alert → south
Later that week, Lamarre-Condon handed himself in to a police station and was charged.
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Condon → hand → station
Eight days after the alleged killings took place, authorities found the couple's bodies.
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authorities → allege → bodies
Lamarre-Condon was sacked by New South Wales Police in the weeks after he was charged with the alleged murders.
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he → sack → murders
Before the opening address on Monday, a 15-member jury was selected, with the judge, Justice Natalie Adams, explaining that three extra people were chosen - a jury is typically made up of 12 people - as a contingency for sickness and other unforeseen circumstances.
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jury → open → sickness
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