Lamarre-Condon asked about police gunshot response days before alleged murders
Days before the alleged murders, the accused asked a colleague how police would respond to a gunshot report.
Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon is on trial for the February 2024 deaths of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. On 14 February, three days before the alleged murders, he asked colleague Dayna Schagen a hypothetical question: if police heard a gunshot report but were told by a member of the public that it was just fireworks, how would they respond?
Schagen said officers would disregard it due to the volume of jobs they receive. About a month after the alleged murders, Lamarre-Condon called Schagen and told her: "I love you and not everything in the news is true.
It will all come out in court." Schagen replied that he had killed two people and hung up.
She reported the call to police. The defence says both men died in separate accidental self-defence struggles and Lamarre-Condon cleaned the scene in a panic.
Why it mattersThe hypothetical question suggests Lamarre-Condon may have been planning how to disguise the alleged crime before it happened.
AustraliaThis is a high-profile Sydney murder trial with national attention; Australians are watching the evidence unfold in court.
Corroborated bythenightly.com.au·perthnow.com.au
✓ Claims checked against the source and corrected before publish. checked 4 h ago
Open this story in InSnip →
