Former NSW police officer is accused of killing TV presenter Jesse Baird and flight attendant Luke Davies with his service weapon in February 2024
Crucial phone records that could reveal a former police officer’s movements at the time he allegedly killed two men in Sydney are being sought by his defence team.
Beau Lamarre-Condon is charged with two counts of murder after police found the bodies of former TV presenter Jesse Baird, 26, and Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies, 29, in February 2024.
Lamarre-Condon’s Legal Aid lawyer, Alex Curnick, told the Downing Centre local court on Tuesday she was seeking so-called Cellebrite reports regarding her client’s phone – a reference to software police use to extract data from mobiles.
Data taken by police in Cellebrite extractions includes location information, internet browsing history, text messages and call logs.
The bodies of Baird and Davies were found on 27 February inside surfboard bags at the fence line of a rural property in Bungonia, near Goulburn, about 200km south-west of Sydney.
Lamarre-Condon, 29, is alleged to have shot them at Baird’s inner-city home with his service weapon before attempting to dispose of their bodies.
The court heard police did not oppose handing over Lamarre-Condon’s phone records, but there were still some issues with revealing records tied to several others allegedly involved in the case.
“At the very least, I’m hoping in the meantime the Cellebrite from the accused’s phones can be … served on us,” Curnick said.
The magistrate Greg Grogin said the documents should be produced for the court to rule on what was permissible to be produced.
“Documentation should be produced in the court and not withheld,” he said. “Let’s get some documentation that can be produced for the defendant as and when it becomes available. Let’s get this thing moving.”
The former senior constable is facing two counts of domestic violence-related murder and one count of break and enter with intent to commit an indictable offence.
Police allege the attack was premeditated after a months-long campaign of “predatory behaviour” targeting Baird, whom Lamarre-Condon briefly dated before the TV presenter began a relationship with Davies.
Suspicions were raised after possessions belonging to the men were found in a skip bin in the southern Sydney suburb of Cronulla, leading police to Baird’s blood-smeared share house in inner-city Paddington.
Lamarre-Condon was sacked by the New South Wales police force in mid-March.
He joined the force in 2019 and previously ran a celebrity blog, posing in photos with dozens of A-listers including Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Harry Styles.
The matter was scheduled to return to court on 28 Feburary.
