Former officer admits throwing Jesse Baird’s phone from Sydney bridge

Beau Lamarre-Condon has admitted throwing Jesse Baird’s phone from a bridge after the deaths of Baird and Luke Davies, telling a court he did so to avoid having the device’s evidence on him. The former police officer is on trial for the alleged murders, and prosecutors say his actions were intended to destroy evidence that could incriminate him.

Lamarre-Condon told the New South Wales Supreme Court that he threw the phone from Tom Uglys Bridge in Sydney’s south and agreed with the prosecutor’s suggestion that he wanted to destroy potentially incriminating evidence. He also accepted that he had asked a friend in Western Australia whether he could send her the phone to dispose of in water, but never mailed it. He denied deliberately deleting messages and photographs documenting his relationship with Baird; he has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges and aggravated break and enter.