Beau Lamarre-Condon, accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in 2024, is in the witness box for the first time. He has pleaded not guilty in the NSW Supreme Court. Follow all the updates live in our blog. Choose what information you see below by using filters Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has chosen to give evidence in his double murder trial over the deaths of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. The 31-year-old is accused of shooting the pair with his police pistol in Baird's Paddington share house in February 2024 . The Crown's case is that Lamarre-Condon developed an obsessive and jealous infatuation with Baird after a casual romance during parts of 2023. He's pleaded not guilty and is arguing self-defence , with his lawyers previously telling the jury that the deaths were the result of two separate struggles involving the pistol. The Supreme Court trial is now in its seventh week and jurors have heard evidence or statements from around 90 witnesses in the Crown case, which closed today . Lamarre-Condon's lawyers called him as the first witness in the defence case. With a brief beginning of evidence, the court has now adjourned for lunch . Lamarre-Condon will be back in the box to continue after the break at 2PM AEDT. He says he met Jesse Baird in early October 2022 at Universal nightclub on Oxford Street in Sydney. "For the months of October to November 2022 I would say we were friends with a sexual relationship. "December 2022 that's when we started going on romantic dates." He said he would show Baird, who was new to Sydney, around town. "He was very outgoing and into sporting activities and willing to give anything a crack." In 2021, Lamarre-Condon started worked at Youth Command in Glebe. "I wanted to deter youth crime ... that's something I was passionate about," he said. He said he wanted to escape the "torment and bullying" he experienced at the Surry Hills police command. Eight months later, the same commanders "transferred over" to Youth Command as well. He is being asked about his experience on the police force and some of the graphic scenes he had witnessed, including a colleague who took their own life at work. In the audio recording of the visit, Lamarre-Condon continued telling a friend about February 19, 2024 — the day Baird and Davies died. Lamarre-Condon is in the witness box in court today to give evidence. Also tendered in court is a 51-minute recorded conversation between Lamarre-Condon and a friend in December 2024 . The friend can't be identified for legal reasons. In the terse exchange, he says he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in relation to Jesse Baird "only and no-one else". "This right here is why everything kicked off," he says. Beau Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to murder and is arguing self-defence . We've heard snippets of what he told friends in days after Jesse Baird and Luke Davies 's deaths in court. The jury has also seen a written statement the accused made in June 2025 . It outlines the evidence he says he "would be prepared, if necessary, to give in court as a witness". In it, he alleges a woman known as Elizabeth Kennedy helped him dispose of the bodies in a hire van outside of Sydney. He says he told her "Jesse was dead" on February 20, 2024. That was a day after the alleged murders. Beau Lamarre-Condon claimed she deterred him from going to the police and the next day, said "we have to get rid of them straight away" . Ms Kennedy denies his version of events and rejects any suggestion she helped him dispose of the bodies. The statement also references discussions with his lawyers about the pleas he considered entering . "I also wanted to do the right thing for the families, as they deserve to know the truth too," he wrote, about Ms Kennedy's alleged involvement . Thanks for joining us
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