CCTV shows murder accused buying bag to allegedly dispose of body with

A jury has been shown CCTV of Beau Lamarre-Condon buying a surfboard bag days before he allegedly shot Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.

Prosecutors allege Mr Lamarre-Condon planned to use it to dispose of Mr Baird's body, who was his ex at the time.

He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one of aggravated break and enter.

A jury has been shown footage of former Sydney police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon buying a surfboard bag prior to the alleged murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, which prosecutors allege he planned to use to dispose of Mr Baird's body.

Mr Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one of aggravated break and enter, with a NSW Supreme Court trial in its first week.

The 31-year-old is accused of shooting Mr Baird and his new boyfriend, Luke Davies, with his police pistol at Mr Baird's share house in Paddington, in Sydney's east, in February 2024.

The Crown alleges he formed an obsessive and jealous infatuation with Mr Baird, who had twice broken things off with him and requested no further contact.

Mr Lamarre-Condon's defence counsel has flagged with jurors that self defence will be argued, and that it is his case that Mr Baird and Mr Davies died during two separate struggles in the Brown Street property, both involving his service pistol.

During the Crown's opening address, jurors were told Mr Lamarre-Condon was accused of planning Mr Baird's alleged murder in February 2024, including by stopping at a sports store days before to buy a surfboard bag to dispose of his body.

On Thursday, the jury was played CCTV of inside a store on February 17, 2024, showing Mr Lamarre-Condon and the friend looking at surfboard bags.

Crown Prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC previously told the jury he anticipated evidence from the friend that the accused asked him whether he would fit inside the surfboard bag, to which the friend replied "probably not".

Mr Hatfield said it would be the friend's evidence that the accused then said: "I'll grab this one instead, it should be big enough."

The footage played today was among several compilations of CCTV footage being shown, including footage of Mr Lamarre-Condon arriving and leaving Balmain Police Station the previous day, driving his Tesla, and stopping at ATMs.

The jury was also shown footage of Mr Baird and Mr Davies at the Beresford in Surry Hills on the afternoon of February 18, 2024.