Claims extracted
21
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
10%
2 of 21 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
The Guardian's corrections and
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Police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon asked a colleague, a day before he allegedly murdered Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, if a high-profile killer would have “gotten away with it” if he’d not taken his own life, a Sydney court has heard.
uncertain
court → ask → life
Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally shooting the couple with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.
asserted
Condon → accuse → February
He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter.
asserted
He → plead → break
Ben Higginson, who served with the New South Wales police force criminal investigation team in Sydney, told the supreme court trial on Friday about working with Lamarre-Condon the day before Baird and Davies were killed.
asserted
Baird → serve → Condon
The two police officers had been working at a pro-Palestine protest on 18 February 2024 when Lamarre-Condon asked Higginson about work.
asserted
Condon → work → work
Higginson replied that it had been a “bit of a rough time” as he had been investigating the murder of Lilie James.
asserted
he → reply → James
James, 21, was a water polo coach at St Andrew’s Cathedral school who was killed by Paul Thijssen in October 2023 days after the pair broke up.
asserted
pair → kill → October
CCTV captured Thijssen following James into the school’s gymnasium with a hammer before her body was found.
asserted
body → capture → hammer
He later killed himself at the Vaucluse cliffs.
asserted
He → kill → cliffs
Higginson became emotional when discussing the case with Lamarre-Condon, noting the crime had occurred at his old school, so it “hit home a bit more”, the court was told on Friday.
asserted
court → become → Friday
But when Lamarre-Condon asked about James’s murder he seemed “blase”, Higginson told the court.
“He thought Paul was stupid for doing it on CCTV,” the police investigator said.
asserted
investigator → ask → CCTV
Higginson told the court that Lamarre-Condon then asked if Thijssen hadn’t committed suicide “would he have gotten away with it?”
asserted
he → tell → it
The investigator said police didn’t only rely on CCTV when examining a crime.
asserted
police → say → crime
Higginson brought up the 2007 death of Matthew Leveson and told Lamarre-Condon he “could remember the CCTV of [Leveson’s] partner at Bunnings buying tarp, and he ended up burying him in the national park”.
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he → bring → park
Both police officers then spoke about how cash was more difficult to trace than bank cards and “what avenues detectives look at for suspicious deaths”, the court heard.
asserted
court → speak → deaths
When Lamarre-Condon asked about phones, Higginson said he responded: “If you were to leave your phone at home and commit a murder, the phone would be showing up in the vicinity of your residence.”
asserted
phone → ask → residence
Higginson said the two weren’t close, but they would chat at work, and he recalled Lamarre-Condon would tell him about his “side-hustles”.
asserted
Condon → say → hustles
“Apparently he goes to France to buy Hermes bags and resell them here,” he told the court.
asserted
he → go → court
The defence lawyer John Stratton SC said during his opening statement that Baird and Davies were fatally shot in “self-defence” after struggles with the policeman.
asserted
Baird → say → policeman
Lamarre-Condon immediately began cleaning up the scene because he “panicked”, the jury was told.
asserted
jury → begin → scene
The trial before justice Natalie Adams continues.
asserted
trial → continue → justice
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