Beau Lamarre-Condon trial hears friend’s account of alleged confession

Beau Lamarre-Condon’s murder trial in Sydney heard on 23 October 2026 from a friend who said the former police officer told him he had killed people and asked for help cleaning up. The account is witness testimony in the New South Wales Supreme Court case over the deaths of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies; Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty.

What the friend told the jury

The friend, whose identity is suppressed by a court order, said Lamarre-Condon came to his workplace in February 2024 after saying he needed to speak with him. According to the witness, Lamarre-Condon said he had killed people and described what happened as an out-of-body experience. The witness said he was shocked and asked whether Lamarre-Condon was joking.

The witness said Lamarre-Condon later claimed he had been joking. The Guardian reported that, according to the friend, Lamarre-Condon then said the account was real but that he had not wanted the friend to tell anyone. ABC News Australia reported the witness’s account that Lamarre-Condon also discussed disposing of bloodied clothes.

Charges and defence position

Lamarre-Condon is accused of killing Baird and Davies at Baird’s home in Paddington on 19 February 2024 with his police-issued pistol. He has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges and one charge of aggravated break and enter. His lawyers say the men died during separate struggles involving the pistol; the defence has described his actions as self-defence.

The friend also testified about an earlier overseas trip on which Lamarre-Condon allegedly sought a silencer. He described a later visit to a national park where Lamarre-Condon allegedly fired a police-issued weapon and asked whether the sound would be heard in a house. The Guardian reported that the trial before Justice Natalie Adams continues.