Court hears former friend’s account of officer’s celebrity photo-seeking habits
A former friend of Beau Lamarre-Condon told the NSW Supreme Court that he used to seek out celebrities, including Pitbull and Kourtney Kardashian, for photographs. Her account also covered their discussions about Covid restrictions and her later decision to contact police, making it part of the evidence in Lamarre-Condon’s trial over the deaths of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
The friend said she met Lamarre-Condon in Sydney in 2010 and that, on 20 February 2024, he asked her to dispose of a phone, claiming it was connected to stolen police documents. She contacted police after seeing reports about the alleged murders and messages sent from Baird’s phone after his death. Lamarre-Condon, 31, denies two counts of domestic violence-related murder and a separate aggravated break and enter charge; the Crown alleges he shot Davies, while Lamarre-Condon says Davies accidentally shot himself during a struggle.
- A former friend described Lamarre-Condon’s celebrity chasing in court.
- She said he asked her to dispose of a phone in February 2024.
- Lamarre-Condon denies the murder charges; the trial continues.
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The case for
The prosecution can argue that the friend’s account helps establish Lamarre-Condon’s actions and state of mind around the time of the alleged killings. Her evidence that he asked her to dispose of a phone, and that she went to police after learning of the deaths and seeing messages from Baird’s phone, may be relevant to assessing the Crown’s case, alongside the other evidence.
The case against
The defence can argue that the account should be weighed cautiously: seeking celebrity photographs is not evidence of murder, and the request to dispose of a phone needs to be assessed in its full context. The friend’s interpretation and recollection do not by themselves establish who caused Davies’s death, which Lamarre-Condon says occurred accidentally during a struggle; the court must assess that claim against all the evidence.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Starstruck cop Beau Lamarre-Condon hunted down Pitbull and the Kardashians, court told – as jury hears how he summed up his job: ‘Devil’s work’”.