Beau Lamarre-Condon Denies Stalking Ex-Partner Jesse Baird at Murder Trial
Former NSW police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon denied stalking or being obsessed with Jesse Baird on his fourth day in the witness box on November 10, 2026, while admitting he entered Baird's home and went through his phone.
Former New South Wales police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon denied stalking his ex-partner Jesse Baird, or being "obsessed" with him, during cross-examination at his murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.
It was his fourth day in the witness box. He admitted, however, that he entered Baird's home while Baird was out, went through his phone without consent and unfollowed people on his Instagram account.
Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter. He is accused of shooting Baird, a television presenter, and Baird's new partner, Luke Davies, with his police pistol at Baird's Paddington home in Sydney on February 19, 2024.
He maintains both men died following separate struggles over the weapon. He says he went to the house that morning to retrieve his belongings.
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC put it to him that he had been "obsessed with [Mr Baird] right from the start". Hatfield suggested Baird's work as a television presenter contributed to that obsession.
Lamarre-Condon said he was not interested in Baird's job and liked him for who he was. He said he was "smitten", but not obsessed.
The court was shown a message he sent a friend on December 22, 2022, reading "I'm in love fml". Another text said, "It sounds crazy, I love him." Lamarre-Condon said: "I say I love you to all my friends and people like that all the time."
Hatfield also suggested he fretted when Baird was slow to answer his messages and felt insecure about the relationship. "Yeah at times I was a bit in my head," Lamarre-Condon replied.
He admitted going through Baird's Instagram messages during a March 2023 holiday at a farm, because he wanted to see whether Baird was talking to other men. "Curiosity just got the best of me," he said.
He said he unfollowed two or three people on Baird's account. "I acknowledge that unfollowing people is a breach of his privacy," he told the court. He checked the phone again before the couple's first break-up in April 2023.
Asked about the period after the split, he said: "I definitely wasn't stalking him." He described the break-up as "amicable" and said he had initiated it.
"We always followed each other. That's not stalking," he said. He added that he missed Baird "as a friend as well, not just as a sexual partner".
He accepted he used a key left outside Baird's house to collect his belongings in late April or early May 2023. He rejected the suggestion that he broke in. He also ate an Easter egg he had bought for Baird.
Hatfield referred to earlier evidence from Lamarre-Condon's friend Georgia Cook. She said he told her he had been travelling to Baird's house in his mother's car and watching him before taking a Polaroid camera. Lamarre-Condon claimed she had added her own "salt and pepper" to the account.
The court also heard that CCTV footage of Baird at the Royal Paddington hotel was found on Lamarre-Condon's iCloud account. Hatfield asked whether he had misused his authority as a police officer to get it.
Lamarre-Condon denied that. He said he was working in Sydney's city centre on May 19, 2023, when Baird invited him to the hotel. He said he saw Baird on screen while checking the venue's CCTV for a possible assault inquiry, filmed it and sent it with a joking message.
Hatfield alleged this was a "deliberately false explanation". Lamarre-Condon disagreed.
Accused of stalking, he told Hatfield: "if you're going to accuse me of stalking you're going to have to show my phone records of where I was on these dates."
