Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon is giving evidence from the witness box in his double murder trial as his defence begins in Sydney.Lamarre-Condon, 31, is accused of fatally shooting couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter.Lamarre-Condon on Thursday started giving evidence at the New South Wales supreme court in front of a 15-person jury. He was the first witness for the defence.Wearing a light grey suit, a dark coloured tie and a white collared shirt, Lamarre-Condon vowed to tell the truth.Prosecution lawyers wrapped up their case on Thursday morning.
They called more than 50 witnesses, played hours of CCTV footage and shared pages of social media messages over the first seven weeks of the trial.Lamarre-Condon’s defence team has previously claimed Baird and Davies were accidentally shot in two separate struggles with the accused when he was acting in “self-defence”.The officer cleaned up the scene and disposed of the bodies afterwards because he “panicked considerably”, the defence lawyer John Stratton SC previously said.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotionThe trial before Justice Natalie Adams continues.