Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon’s alleged efforts to conceal the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were interrupted so he could undergo hospital surgery, a Sydney court has heard.
The revelation emerged during ongoing court proceedings regarding the February 2024 double homicide that shook Sydney, with prosecutors outlining how the former senior constable paused his disposal efforts to seek medical attention. Guardian NSW politics reported that the 31-year-old was operated on at St Vincent’s Hospital in Darlinghurst just two days after the couple were fatally shot in Baird’s inner-east Paddington terrace.
Surgical Pause Amid Alleged Concealment
According to details tendered before the court, Lamarre-Condon’s hospital admission took place while the bodies of Baird, 26, and Davies, 29, remained hidden. The former NSW Police officer had allegedly transported the remains in a hired white van prior to checking into the public hospital, located only a short distance from the Paddington crime scene.
The surgical procedure prompted a brief hiatus in an elaborate cover-up that spanned across metropolitan Sydney and regional New South Wales. Investigators allege that following the medical intervention, Lamarre-Condon discharged himself from the Darlinghurst facility before resuming his cross-state efforts to permanently conceal the remains in remote bushland.
Paddington Shootings and the Service Firearm
The charges relate to the fatal shooting of Baird, a former Network 10 entertainment presenter, and Davies, an international flight attendant, inside Baird's terrace house on 19 February 2024.
Police allege Lamarre-Condon entered the Brown Street residence and discharged multiple rounds from his standard-issue police Glock service pistol. Ballistics evidence, neighbour statements, and emergency call logs quickly formed the foundation of the homicide squad's investigation.
The alarm was officially raised several days after the killings when bloodied clothing, credit cards, and personal possessions belonging to the victims were discovered discarded in a skip bin in Cronulla. That discovery triggered an urgent missing persons investigation that rapidly escalated into a major double-murder probe.
Extensive Search and Criminal Proceedings
The coordinated search for the missing couple gripped the state and led detectives through multiple locations across southern Sydney and into the Southern Tablelands. The search concluded on 27 February when police located the victims' bodies in surf travel bags, concealed under debris along a fence line on a rural property in Bungonia, near Goulburn.
Lamarre-Condon had surrendered himself to detectives at Bondi Police Station on 23 February and was subsequently dismissed from the NSW Police Force while remanded in custody.
The matter remains before the NSW Local Court as prosecutors finalise the brief of evidence against the former constable, who faces two counts of domestic violence-related murder and one count of break and enter. The case is scheduled to return to court for further committal proceedings later this year.