An ex-police officer in court over the alleged domestic violence-related murder of two men will soon lodge a plea to the charges levelled against him.
Beaumont Lamarre-Condon, 29, has been accused of fatally shooting Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies, 29, and TV presenter Jessie Baird, 26, while he was off-duty.
Police allege the February 19 attack in inner-city Sydney was premeditated after a months-long campaign of “predatory behaviour” targeting Baird, whom he briefly dated.
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The Balmain man has been hit with two counts of domestic violence-related murder and one count of breaking and entering with intent to commit an indictable offence.
Lamarre-Condon’s lawyer John Walford appeared briefly at Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday, when he said pleas would be entered the next time the case was before a magistrate.
“We’re in the last throes of finalising instructions,” he told Magistrate Theo Tsavdaridis.
Walford declined to say whether his client would deny the charges and face trial or admit the crimes and go to sentence when pressed by the magistrate.
He will return to court on November 5.
Lamarre-Condon was placed into custody after his arrest and did not appear in court on Tuesday either in person or by video link from prison.
He allegedly shot Baird and Davies with his NSW Police service weapon at Baird’s Paddington home.
A triple-0 call was made from Davies’ mobile phone four minutes after neighbours heard gunshots at the house.
A patrol car was later sent to search for the source of the call, which was disconnected before anyone spoke.
The couple’s bodies were found on February 27 inside surfboard bags at the fence line of a rural property in Bungonia, near Goulburn, about 200km southwest of Sydney.
Suspicion the duo were dead was sparked after possessions belonging to the men were found in a skip bin in the southern Sydney suburb of Cronulla, leading police to Baird’s blood-smeared share house.
Lamarre-Condon joined the NSW Police Force in 2019 and previously ran a celebrity blog, posing in photos with dozens of A-listers including Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and Harry Styles.
He was sacked from the force in mid-March.
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