Beau Lamarre-Condon: Update after police officer accused of murdering Jesse Baird, Luke Davies

A police officer has made a late change to his legal representation after he was accused of murdering two men with his service weapon in an alleged double homicide that shocked the nation. Beau Lamarre-Condon faced Sydney Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday after spending more than eight months behind bars on remand. The 29-year-old has been charged with murdering Channel 10 presenter Jesse Baird and his boyfriend, Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies, at a Paddington share house in February. Police allege he killed the couple using a police-issued firearm before placing their bodies inside surfboard bags and transporting them to a remote property near Goulburn, in the NSW southern tablelands. The murders allegedly followed “predatory” behaviour from Lamarre-Condon, who had been in a brief relationship with Mr Baird in the months before his death. Mr Lamarre-Condon was expected to enter pleas on Tuesday in answer to two counts of domestic violence related murder and one count of break and enter. However, his lawyer John Walford told the court he was officially withdrawing from the matter. Mr Lamarre-Condon will now be represented by NSW Legal Aid. The serving police officer turned himself in four days after Mr Baird and Mr Davies were allegedly killed in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The men’s bodies were found on a rural property near Goulburn after a week-long search. Mr Lamarre-Condon has since been dismissed from the NSW Police Force. More to come.