CCTV and the $85 surfboard cover: Video played in ex-cop’s murder trial

Accused double-murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly used his position as a NSW Police officer to obtain CCTV footage of ex-partner Jesse Baird on a date the year before he killed him, a Sydney court has heard.

Lamarre-Condon, 31, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder over the shooting deaths of Baird, 26, and Luke Davies, 29, in Paddington on February 19, 2024. His NSW Supreme Court criminal trial started in Sydney on Monday .

On Thursday, the court released a series of exhibits in the trial, including CCTV footage police say was found on the former police officer’s iCloud account after his arrest.

The Crown alleges Lamarre-Condon claimed he was investigating an assault to obtain footage from the Royal Hotel in Paddington on May 19, 2023, when Baird was on a date with another man.

The court has heard Baird had broken up with Lamarre-Condon for the first time in April that year.

“Police came looking for footage about someone that was in the venue and had a fight up the road,” the assistant venue manager said in an email on May 20, 2023, tendered in court.

Among a series of other exhibits released on Thursday was a photo of Lamarre-Condon’s police-issued gun, which the Crown alleges he used to shoot Baird and his new boyfriend, Davies, and a police photo of a bobby pin in the front door lock of Baird’s home.

The Crown alleges Lamarre-Condon broke into Baird’s Paddington share house in August 2023, months before the murders, and stole his mobile phone and wallet. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge, and the defence case is that the accused used a key given to him by the former AFL umpire and Network Ten presenter and producer.

The court has heard Lamarre-Condon posted images on social media that were not visible to Baird but to a select audience of potential romantic rivals that gave the impression he was in a relationship with Baird.

This included an Instagram story when Baird was in Melbourne, showing a bouquet with the caption: “When he’s in Melbourne but still sends you these.”

Lamarre-Condon would later deny in text messages to Baird that the post was about him. He claimed it was a reference to flowers his stepfather had bought his mother.

He posted another Instagram story to a limited audience, showing him and Baird at a concert.

The court heard on Thursday that police had obtained more than 14,000 hours of CCTV footage from 200 locations as part of the investigation into Lamarre-Condon.

The Crown played the jury a series of compilations of the CCTV footage, including from inside a sports store in Westfield Miranda where the accused was shown buying a large surfboard cover with a friend on February 17, 2024, two days before the alleged murders.