A friend of accused murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon testified in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday that the former police officer “guilt-tripped” her into helping him fabricate a cancer diagnosis months before the alleged killing of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
Lamarre-Condon, 31, stands accused of fatally shooting 26-year-old Baird and his partner, 29-year-old Davies, with a police service weapon at Baird’s Paddington home on February 19, 2024. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter.
Shae Davison, a close friend of the accused, told the jury that Lamarre-Condon had become “infatuated” with Baird during their short-lived relationship. After Baird ended the romance in November 2023—reportedly due to Lamarre-Condon accessing his phone to delete messages from other men—the former officer was left “really upset.”
Davison recounted that Lamarre-Condon arrived at her home the following day, distraught and seeking comfort. He requested to use her Instagram account to send a message to Baird, framing it as a final attempt to reconcile. According to Davison, he applied immense psychological pressure to gain her cooperation.
“He wore me down,” Davison told the court. “He said he never asked anything of me, he’s so upset, can I help. It felt like guilt-tripping to me and using my friendship to get what he wanted.”
Reluctantly, Davison agreed to let him send the message, provided he read it aloud and excluded certain medical details. However, the resulting 1,600-word Instagram note contained fabricated claims that Davison had accompanied Lamarre-Condon to Westmead Hospital, where he was allegedly diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his shoulder.
The message suggested the diagnosis and subsequent strong medications—which it claimed could cause hormonal imbalances and erratic behavior—explained his intrusive actions regarding Baird’s phone. The text read, in part: “Everyone knows these medications are some of the strongest… which throw off your hormones massively, which throws off how a person can act in their day to day life.”
Davison testified that she had never been to the hospital with him, nor had he disclosed that he would include her in the fraudulent narrative. When she later asked him about the content of the messages, he became defensive and annoyed. He eventually asked her to unsend the correspondence.
Prosecutors allege that Lamarre-Condon began planning the murders in early 2024. The defence has countered by claiming the officer acted in self-defence after disguising himself as an Uber Eats driver to enter the property.
The trial, presided over by Justice Natalie Adams, continues.
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