Follow the Daily Mail's live updates as accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon gives evidence at his double murder trial.
Lamarre-Condon has been charged with the murders of his ex-boyfriend Jesse Baird, and Baird's partner Luke Davies, in February 2024.
He has pleaded not guilty to those charges, and an additional break-and-enter offence. Our reporters have been live-blogging since the trial began.
In Friday's evidence, Lamarre-Condon is providing his version of Baird and Davies' deaths. He says he shot Baird in the chest, claims he tried to save Baird's life, and Davies then approaching with Lamarre-Condon's weapon.
Lamarre-Condon insisted to the jury that he did not kill Davies, but that he shot himself during a struggle, and then 'passed out' on the couch after the pair's deaths.
His cross-examination began about 1pm.
Breaking:Lamarre-Condon describes the moment Jesse Baird died
Lamarre-Condon has outlined the way he claims Jesse Baird was killed.
He claimed he found Baird holding a knife and masking tape.
'He started yelling "we're getting robbed", "we're getting robbed",' he said.
Lamarre Condon claimed Baird could not tell it was him.
'He had the knife, he dropped the tape, and he lunged at me. I immediately grabbed ... his right hand with my left hand and my right hand to pull the knife away from me, and I said, "Jesse, it's Beau, it's Beau, it's me. Calm the f**k down!"
'And he wouldn't register what I was saying ... His adrenaline was through the roof.'
Lamarre-Condon claimed he repeatedly told Baird to drop the knife, which he claimed was by then at his throat.
The alleged killer claimed he feared for his life as Baird slashed open his shirt with the knife.
'I didn't want to kill him,' he said.
Lammare-Condon claimed his police training forced him to shoot him in the chest.
'I guess it's just my instinct. Police training, as police officers, we are trained to shoot people at the centre body mass to kill a person, to stop the threat, and to kill them. I did not want to do this to Jesse.'
He claimed he aimed at Baird's right shoulder, which forced the knife out of Baird's hand.
(Below, Luke Davies is pictured on left, and Jesse Baird is on right).
Crown prosecutor grills Beau Lamarre-Condon about how Jesse Baird died
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC has begun his cross examination of Beau Lamarre-Condon.
The alleged killer's own barrister had questioned him for little under a day, beginning on Thursday morning and winding up just before 1pm.
In opening the cross examination, Lamarre-Condon was taken through his claims about searching through boxes in Jesse Baird's home upon entering it on the day he died.
The court heard Lamarre-Condon, who was wearing a helmet, spent about a minute with the first box in the hall before moving onto the kitchen.
It was there he claimed to have heard someone approach before running upstairs.
The court heard he took off his jacket and a backpack and hid behind a bedroom door upstairs for several minutes before heading back downstairs.
When he heard a door slam, he thought it was safe to come down, the court heard.
Lamarre-Condon claimed he still needed to check the box in the kitchen for his expensive 'cardio ring' before leaving.
With the helmet visor still down, he walked downstairs, he claimed.
'He had a knife in his right hand, and he had masking tape in his left hand,' Lamarre-Condon said upon seeing Baird.
'I froze,' he claimed.
'And honestly, at that time, I was just going to lift up the visor and just tell him it's me and ask my stuff back.'
Lamarre-Condon claimed he was afraid to run out of fear Baird would knife him in the back.
The alleged killer again claimed to have told Baird his name in an effort to calm him down.
'You were confident if he knew it was you that he would stop,' Mr Hattfield asked.
'I know Jesse, and Jesse would never try to attack me with a knife if he knew it was me. I was of the belief 110 percent that Jesse thought it was I was a random person, and he was ready to kick off,' Lamarre-Condon replied.
'He would not come at me with a knife if he knew it was me.'
Lamarre-Condon claimed that because he was a police officer, the subsequent wrestle with Baird fell like an eternity.
'And what's reflected all the time on our body worn footage is a wrestle that's literally 30 seconds feels like to police officers five minutes,' he said.
Lamarre-Condon claimed the families of his alleged victims 'deserved to bury their loved ones' as prosecution begins cross examination
Beau Lamarre Condon insisted he had good intentions in helping police find the bodies of his alleged victims.
On February 27, Lamarre-Condon spoke with police about the bodies.
'I needed to do the right thing for the families, and without any further delay, I needed to help police locate the bodies because everyone deserves to bury their loved ones,' he said.
'And that's what I said to him. And I gave him instructions to contact the homicide squad because I needed to help them.'
With that, the defence ended its questions of Lamarre-Condon, paving the way for the prosecution to cross-examine him on his various claims.
Lamarre-Condon said he 'believed' he had schizophrenia after the alleged murders
Lamarre-Condon has continued to speak of his 'out of body experience' after the deaths of Jessa Baird and Luke Davies.
After surrendering to police, the former officer said he told a detective he 'believed he may' have schizophrenia.
'He asked me if I had any current mental health (issues), and I said that I have depression, anxiety, which was the truth, and that I believe I have some symptoms of schizophrenia,' he said.
'I never said I had it; I just said I believed, and that was because of the out-of-body experiences.
'I didn't know what I was experiencing at the time. I believed that it could be schizophrenia because when I've been a police officer, I've seen people suffer from delusions and talk about out-of-body experiences. So I was actually of the genuine belief that that I could have been experiencing some symptoms of that.'
Lamarre-Condon claims another mate suggested he dump the bodies in a national park after failed sink attempt
Beau Lamarre-Condon claims another mate gave him advice on how to dispose of the bodies of Jessa Baird and Luke Davies.
It was the morning of February 22 when the mate, who cannot be named for legal reasons, provided his advice.
'I had told him what had happened at the farm in regards to that the bag wouldn't sink, and then (he) made a suggestion to me,' he told the jury.
'(He) told me to go out to the national park and to leave the surfboard bags there. And he told me to cover them with branches and to put rocks on top of them, so if anyone was to ever walk by or like a helicopter was to go over, that it wouldn't be seen.'
The court heard Lamarre-Condon couldn't recall why he chose the final spot where the bodies were eventually found.
'I put some rocks and some branches on top of it along the fence line of the Greek monastery,' he said.
Not long after, Kennedy allegedly told Lamarre-Condon she would go to police.
'She said, "Oh my God! Oh my God! What are we going to do? Are you going to go to the police?". And I said, "Yes, I am going to the police. I'm going to call them and tell them",' he said.
Lamarre-Condon claimed he told her he planned to 'do the right thing'.
'I essentially told her that I needed to do the right thing. I need to go to police, and I'm going to tell them everything that happened,' he said.
Lamarre-Condon claims Taylor Swift fan mate helped mix concrete with him to sink the bodies of alleged victims
Lamarre-Condon has described how his female friend helped him mix the concrete used to try and sink the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
'I asked (her) if she could go fill up the bucket full of water from the dam, so we could mix the concrete,' he said.
'We started mixing in the concrete, and then we moved the surfboard bag and the longboard bag - only the one that Luke was in - towards the dam, and we put the tinny into the dam, and then right next to the dam, that's when we started filling up only the outer bag.'
Lamarre-Condon claimed Kennedy 'freaked out' when they couldn't sink the bodies.
'So at this point, (she) inserted two splits into the bag, and then I went back out and tried to get water into those holes, and it wouldn't go down,' he said.
'That's when (she) like freaked out. She was having a panic attack, and I said, "It's fine. It's fine. I'll take you home. I'll take you home".'
The court heard Lamarre-Condon could not recall later travelling to K-Mart to buy weights to try and finish the job.
Lamarre-Condon claims Taylor Swift loving mate helped him dispose of bodies
Beau Lamarre-Condon claimed he contacted a female friend to help him dispose of the bodies because his male mate was having his car serviced.
'I was going to ask him for help first because obviously he's a lot stronger than (Elizabeth Kennedy) to help me,' he said.
'But (my mate) had his car booked in for servicing, so he also had work and he couldn't help me.
'So as a last resort, I called (Elizabeth) again, telling her that now I'm going to need her help, even though she agreed to help me the day before, and that's when she recommended some items to buy from Bunnings.'
Lamarre-Condon claimed the van containing the bodies of his alleged victims, stashed under a blue tarp, had been loaded with gear.
'The wheelbarrow, the six bags of concrete, the shovel. I think I had the chainsaw in the box there, and I had heaps of other items,' he said.
Lamarre-Condon claimed he told Kennedy she risked becoming an accessory to the alleged crime by helping him.
'I said (Elizabeth) this is serious. I'm not joking. Essentially, that she could be charged with being an accessory.
'(She) said, "What the f**k? Are you mucking around?", I said, "No", and "I really need you to see this before you get in the car, so you can make the decision to leave. I will not be mad".'
Wiping his eyes yet again. Lamarre-Condon insisted Kennedy offered to help him.
'I started crying and having a panic attack, and I said "I should just go to police right now, shouldn't I?" And she said, "No, no, you can't. What if they don't believe you? You're a police officer. You could go to jail and get killed".'
'And then she said she would help me.'
Lamarre-Condon claimed he told her 'very, very clearly' he would not be mad at her if she walked away.
'I completely understand that I was asking her to do a big favour, but she just wanted to be a good friend and help me,' he said.
Lamarre-Condon claimed it was then Kennedy made the reference to the Taylor Swift track.
'She referred to the Taylor Swift song again. She's a massive Taylor Swift fan ... It's called "No Body, No Crime.",' he said.
Lamarre-Condon denies 'pew pew' remark after alleged murders
Lamarre-Condon has denied telling a mate how he killed his two alleged victims.
'Did you ever make a sign with your finger and thumb, with the index finger pointed forward and the thumb pointing up, and say "pew pew",' his barrister asked.
'I've never said "pew pew" in my life. That's something maybe a kid would say, but I've never said that,' Lamarre-Condon said.
'That's something that (my mate) probably would joke around and say, but that never happened.'
Lamarre-Condon denied ever telling that mate he shot 'the first one through the head and the second one through the door'.
'I didn't. I told (him) that the first shot got Jesse through the shoulder and went out through the door, referring to the open back door, and that the second shot had got Jesse in the head,' he said.
'Nowhere did we discus a third gunshot because I never talked to him about ever shooting Luke because I didn't shoot Luke,' he said.
Lamarre-Condon tells court how he cleaned the alleged crime scene
Lamarre-Condon claims he can't remember where he placed the bullet that killed Luke Davies.
The former cop claimed he used a screw driver to remove the bullet, which he claimed had lodged in a bedroom door after exiting Davies' skull.
'I don't even know what I did with it. I threw it somewhere. I don't remember, but I got it,' he said.
The court heard Lamarre-Condon's version of events about how he went about disposing of his alleged victims' bodies.
On February 20, Lamarre-Condon said he returned to the scene of the alleged crime and cleaned Baird's bedroom.
He told the court he loaded all of Baird's belongings into a van, telling a another friend he had killed Baird.
'(She) then told me that essentially, if I go to police, there's a chance I wouldn't be believed, and I'll be charged, and I would get killed in jail,' he claimed.
'She said that she watches a lot of crime documentaries, and that what we need to do is get rid of the bodies. And she would refer to the Taylor Swift song, "No Body, No Crime.".'
Lamarre-Condon claimed he didn't call police because 'it didn't feel real' and feared he would be killed in jail for being a cop
Lamarre-Condon didn't contact police after the shootings because he didn't think it was real.
'It honestly it did not feel real. I've had a similar situation when I've gone to suicides where I've had an out of body experience, and it's literally taken me a week after work to process that what I actually saw as a first responder was real,' he said.
'All I can explain it is it just felt like I was detached from my body and having an out of body experience. And all I was thinking about at that time was it this isn't real, and if it is real, the housemates when they come home are going to be traumatised, and I can't let them see any blood or anybody.'
Lamarre-Condon said he struggled for some time to establish what had happened was real.
'I realised that s**t, this is real? It was like having a moral dilemma where I knew I should do the right thing and go to police and tell them everything and the truth, but I knew that truth was I was guilty of manslaughter and manslaughter carries a maximum penalty of 25 years, and I'm a police officer,' he said.
Lamarre-Condon said he was terrified of going to jail because he knew he would be a marked man.
'If I go to jail, police officers put people in jail. People in jail want to kill cops,' he said.
Lamarre-Condon wanted to talk to someone to validate his experience, after allegedly killing two men
After allegedly murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, Beau Lamarre-Condon needed to talk.
'Things just didn't feel real, and I just wanted to talk to anybody or somebody to just validate what I was experiencing was real life or a delusion or some sort of out of body experience,' he said.
He rang a mate, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and confided in him that people were dead.
'I said, "I've killed somebody, referring to a singular person. And (he) goes, "What the f**k? Are you serious?",' he said.
Lamarre-Condon claimed he did not know who Luke Davies was.
'(He) goes, "What? Who was it? A housemate?" And I said, "No, it wasn't a housemate. I saw the housemates leave."
'I then said, "I didn't shoot the second person". I wanted to call police back, but I couldn't have them make out that this was a domestic or that I shot a witness.'
Beau Lamarre-Condon 'passed out' after alleged double murders
Lamarre-Condon claimed he had an 'out of body experience' after he allegedly murdered two men.
'I just remember hyperventilating, and this is when it felt like an out of body experience,' he said.
'It was like I was floating above my body and looking down at myself from third person, and everything around me just didn't seem real.
'It was like ... someone else watching myself, and I just remember coming in and out of my body like I was disassociated from my body, and then I could see myself hyperventilating and having a panic attack, and then I went to the couch, lay down, and I passed out for a period of time.'
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