Witness: Sydney officer described dumping bodies in bushland months before alleged murders

Sydney police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, is standing trial accused of fatally shooting his former partner Jesse Baird and Baird's friend Luke Davies at 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.

On Monday, the NSW supreme court heard from Georgia Cook, a close friend of Lamarre-Condon, who described a dinner in May 2023, shortly after the brief relationship between Baird and Lamarre-Condon had ended. Cook told the jury the accused asked her what she would do if he told her he had killed someone, and what she would do with a body if she had committed such a killing.

According to Cook, Lamarre-Condon replied that after killing someone he would take their belongings, put them in a dumpster, and take the body into bushland where it would never be found. Cook said the exchange felt "surreal" at the time, and that she was uncertain whether to believe what she had heard. Hearing such a statement from someone with power in the police force left her frightened and feeling she had nowhere to turn.

Evidence on the alleged killings

Prosecutors told the court last week that after the alleged shootings, Lamarre-Condon dumped Baird's blood-stained belongings and furniture in a skip bin in Cronulla. The bodies of the two men were later found roughly 200km from Paddington, along the fence line of a Greek Orthodox monastery in bushland near Bungonia.

Cook also testified that Lamarre-Condon told her he had been watching Baird's home from outside. The prosecution alleges he began planning the murder in early 2024. The defence argues he acted in self-defence after entering Baird's home disguised as a food delivery rider.

The trial, before Justice Natalie Adams, continues.