Overview
- The trial of former NSW police officer Beau Lamarre‑Condon, who has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, is underway in the NSW Supreme Court and has run for three weeks of an estimated three‑month hearing.
- Prosecutors on Friday had the court release dozens of crime‑scene photographs and exhibits including a fired cartridge case, Bunnings receipts, keys that unlock the Paddington terrace, a service‑station coffee cup with a DNA swab said to match the accused, and clothing found at Bungonia.
- The jury heard that the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were found inside surfboard bags near a Greek monastery at Bungonia on February 27, 2024, after the Crown says the men were shot at Baird’s Paddington home on February 19, 2024.
- A retired crime‑scene expert told jurors that black stippling around Baird’s right‑temple wound indicated a close‑range shot while there was no apparent stippling on Davies’ head wound, and police also found shovel and wheelbarrow residue consistent with attempts to sink the bodies.
- The defence accepts that the bodies were disposed at Bungonia but says the deaths resulted from accidental or self‑defence struggles and panic cleaning; jurors will decide whether the Crown’s planning and concealment theory or the defence’s account is more credible and families will await the verdict.