A former police officer accused of killing former Channel Ten presenter and AFL umpire Jesse Baird allegedly broke into his share house six months beforehand to stalk the television star, according to new court documents.
Beau Lamarre-Condon, 29, faces three new charges as police allege he shot dead Mr Baird and his Qantas flight attendant boyfriend Luke Davies in the inner eastern Sydney suburb of Paddington on February 19 in an act of domestic violence.
Police alleged the act stemmed from Mr Lamarre-Condon’s previous relationship with Mr Baird. Officers have now also added a charge of aggravated break and enter with intent, according to court documents seen by Nine Newspapers on Thursday.
Lamarre-Condon is accused of breaking into Mr Baird’s share house on August 17 last year to commit a serious indictable offence, six months before the alleged murders.
The alleged offence is listed on the charge sheet as ‘stalking Jesse Baird’.
Police sources told Nine earlier this year that Baird told friends in the months before his death of seeing a shadowy figure at the end of his bed late at night.
Lamarre-Condon’s lawyer John Walford told the publication he was ‘a little bit surprised’ about the break-in charge, but they would ‘deal with it’.
He added that his client is ‘hanging in there’ as Lamarre-Condon enters his sixth month in custody.
Beau Lamarre-Condon, 29, faces three new charges as police allege he shot dead Mr Baird and Mr Davies
‘It’s a tough place, that’s the way it is,’ Mr Walford said.
Police allege Lamarre-Condon shot dead Mr Baird, 26 and Mr Davies, 29, with his service pistol at Mr Baird’s home on February 19 and then dumped their bodies two days later in the NSW Southern Tablelands.
Mr Baird and Lamarre-Condon were previously engaged in what police described as an ‘off and on’ romance but Mr Baird had not wanted to pursue a relationship.
Lamarre-Condon, who used to regularly post pictures of himself with international celebrities on social media, turned himself in to police on February 23.
After briefly appearing in court that day, Lamarre-Condon was transferred to the maximum-security Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre, where he was placed in protective custody due to his status as a policeman.
Prison authorities also deemed him potentially at risk because he was accused of extremely serious offences, had attracted saturation media attention and had never previously been in jail.
Police subsequently located the bodies of Mr Baird and Mr Davies on a property at Bungonia, about 180km south-west of Sydney.
Lamarre-Condon has been in protective custody and under constant surveillance at the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre at Silverwater in Sydney’s west for the past four months.
His mental state is reported to be deteriorating.
The bodies of Mr Davies (left) and Mr Baird were found on a property at Bungonia, about 180km south-west of Sydney
Police allege Beau Lamarre-Condon broke into Jesse Baird’s share house in inner-city Paddington six months before the TV star and his new boyfriend were allegedly shot dead
‘He’s not doing real well at the moment,’ a source close to the 28-year-old told Daily Mail Australia earlier this year.
‘Obviously it’s set in now – what’s happened and the allegations and where he is. I think the rot’s set in mentally-wise. He’s at a low point at the moment.
‘He’s very down. He’s hit the lows.’
Prison authorities do not necessarily consider Lamarre-Condon a particular suicide risk but his circumstances combine to suggest he would be vulnerable in jail.
Lamarre-Condon is yet to enter any pleas.
His case returns to Downing Centre Local Court on August 13.
The two domestic violence-related murder charges set to replace the two original murder charges as the case proceeds through the courts.
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