The CCTV footage
The NSW Supreme Court heard earlier in the trial that police had obtained more than 14,000 hours of CCTV footage from 200 locations as part of the investigation into Lamarre-Condon.
This includes CCTV in the hours and days after Baird and Davies died, showing the accused at a McDonald’s drive-through at Sutton Forest and inside shopping centres and Bunnings across Sydney. There is also footage from a bus showing Lamarre-Condon driving behind.
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC, asked the accused about some of the footage on Monday, including the vision above showing him shopping for a second surfboard cover about three hours after the men died.
Hatfield put to him that he looked relaxed in the footage at Westfield Miranda, a suggestion the accused rejected. Lamarre-Condon told the court:
You need to remember that as a police officer … I can’t panic, I can’t react, I have to be the person members of the community look at for direction.
Just because you see me on camera with no reaction doesn’t mean I wasn’t crying five minutes before in the whole car ride there.
‘Did you buy it from AliExpress?’
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC, referred during his cross-examination on Monday to Lamarre-Condon’s evidence that he walked up the street towards Five Ways in Paddington, a junction of streets with a number of cafes, before he went into Baird’s share house.
The accused told the court last week that his thinking at the time was that he was going to leave and not try to retrieve his belongings, until he saw a motorcycle nearby with a helmet dangling off the handlebars, Uber Eats bags and other items that he eventually used to disguise himself.
“I wasn’t intending on stealing it, I was intending on putting it straight back,” Lamarre-Condon said of the Uber Eats gear. “I know the offences of larceny and that’s intention to permanently deprive someone of their belongings and that was not my intention at the time.”
He said that if the rider of the bike had come back he would “just probably explain myself and laugh about it”.
Beau Lamarre-Condon’s cross-examination continues
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Beau Lamarre-Condon’s double murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney.
The former NSW police officer returns to the witness box on Tuesday for further cross-examination by Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC.
Lamarre-Condon, 31, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder over the deaths of Jesse Baird, 26, a former TV presenter, and Luke Davies, 29, a Qantas flight attendant, in Paddington on February 19, 2024. His case is that he acted in self-defence, the 15-person jury has been told.
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