Beau Lamarre-Condon trial live updates: accused double murderer gives evidence in high-profile case

The court has adjourned for lunch. Lamarre-Condon will continue giving evidence at ۲pm.

Public pile in to watch Lamarre-Condon give evidence

Lamarre-Condon’s trial has attracted significant attention.

The gallery of the NSW supreme court in Sydney is filled with curious members of the public watching the former police officer’s evidence.

Lamarre-Condon says he was transferred to youth command division to ‘escape’ police officers at Surry Hills

Lamarre-Condon tells the court he was transferred to the youth command division of the police to “escape” the officers who were “tormenting” him at the Surry Hills police station.

Lamarre-Condon describes traumatic situations he encountered as a police officer

Earlier, Lamarre-Condon responded to questions about confronting situations he had encountered while working as a police officer and told the court he could remember ۱۲ to ۱۵ incidents graphically.

He said he has “seen people that have jumped in front of trains, I have seen multiple hangings.”

Lamarre-Condon says he and Baird would go on dates where they would go to the movies, eat dinner or watch musicals:

Jesse was very much like me. He was very outgoing and willing to do sporting activities … he has his scuba licence, like me, so we also did that.

Lamarre-Condon describes relationship to Jesse Baird

The police officer is responding to questions about the beginning of their relationship:

For the months of October and November ۲۰۲۲ it was friends with a sexual relationship. When we would meet up it was of the sexual nature. By December ۲۰۲۲ that’s when we began going on romantic dates.

Recalling occasions when he had to deal with dead bodies, Lamarre-Condon has spoken about a co-worker who had shot himself in the head.

He recalls the last conversation they had:

“I said ‘How are you?’ and he told me he was good. Nothing appeared out of normal to me, nothing about his behaviour suggested what he was about to do.

“[He] went to his desk took out his gun whilst off duty and shot himself in the head at work.”

Lamarre-Condon’s co-workers later found their deceased colleague, the court heard.

Lamarre-Condon has accused his former supervisor of making homophobic remarks while he was an openly gay police officer.

“He would say things such as, ‘I used to bash gay people while in Jindabyne,’” he told the court.

During one occasion when responding to a domestic violence report, the man allegedly said, “Let’s go get these fucking faggots.”

Beau Lamarre-Condon begins giving evidence

Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has taken the witness box in his double murder trial.

He is giving evidence in the NSW supreme court in front of a ۱۵-person jury, as the first witness for the defence.

Wearing a light grey suit, a dark coloured tie and a white collared shirt, Lamarre-Condon took an oath and vowed to tell the truth.

Welcome to Guardian Australia’s coverage of the Beau Lamarre-Condon trial.

Lamarre-Condon is giving evidence this morning in his high-profile double murder case in Sydney.

The ۳۱-year-old is accused of fatally shooting couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on ۱۹ February ۲۰۲۴.

He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter.