Chilling security camera footage tracking former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon visiting a fast-food drive-thru and multiple hardware stores in a rented van has been shown to a Sydney jury.
The 31-year-old former senior constable is standing trial in the NSW Supreme Court, accused of shooting dead his former partner, entertainment reporter Jesse Baird, 26, and Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies, 29, inside Mr Baird’s Paddington terrace on 19 February 2024.
The Crown alleges the off-duty officer used his NSW Police-issued Glock pistol to carry out the double homicide before hiring a white Toyota HiAce van to transport and conceal their bodies.
Surveillance traces white van through suburbs
According to court footage, Lamarre-Condon was captured on high-resolution closed-circuit cameras navigating metropolitan Sydney in the hired commercial vehicle in the critical hours and days following the alleged killings.
As The Guardian Australia reported, one sequence of footage played to the court depicted the accused officer pulling into a suburban McDonald’s drive-thru, casually ordering and collecting food from the service window while operating the vehicle allegedly used to dispose of the victims' remains.
The prosecution contends that the accused maintained an outward appearance of routine domestic activity, running mundane errands across Sydney while orchestrating a complex cover-up across multiple regional and urban locations.
Consecutive stops at hardware outlets and hospital
The jury was also guided through time-stamped surveillance recordings detailing visits Lamarre-Condon made to three separate Bunnings warehouse stores across Sydney’s southern and eastern suburbs.
Investigators allege that the former officer sought out specific hardware materials, including tarpaulins, padlocks, and cutting equipment, in a calculated bid to secure and conceal the bodies before transporting them out of the metropolitan basin.
The montage of electronic evidence presented by the Crown further revealed that Lamarre-Condon presented to a Sydney hospital during the same period, seeking medical treatment before continuing his movements across the state. The jury observed close-up imagery of the 31-year-old interacting with staff, entering commercial car parks, and walking through retail aisles.
Critical phase in Supreme Court trial
The digital trail forms a cornerstone of the prosecution case, which seeks to prove that the killings and their subsequent aftermath were marked by cold premeditation rather than a spontaneous domestic dispute.
Police allege that after killing both men in the inner-eastern terrace house, Lamarre-Condon initially drove the bodies southwest towards a remote rural property near Bungonia, before later moving them to a secondary roadside location where they were ultimately discovered by detectives.
The disappearance of Mr Baird and Mr Davies prompted a frantic state-wide search after bloodied possessions and clothing belonging to the pair were discovered in an industrial bin in Cronulla, leading homicide detectives directly to the Paddington address.
Lamarre-Condon subsequently surrendered to police at Bondi police station on 23 February 2024.
The trial continues before the NSW Supreme Court.
