Follow our 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. His first day saw him give evidence about his 'fragrance'.
Lamarre-Condon breaks down again about his rotten lot in life at the hands of bullying cop colleagues
Beau Lamarre-Condon has again complained about his work conditions leading up to the alleged murders of two men.
Choking back tears, Lamarre-Condon again claimed his treatment by a former colleague had pushed him to the brink.
'If I was going to have to work with him again on a day-to-day basis as a direct supervisor, and have to go through that tormenting and harassment and bullying on a day-to-day basis, I would have rather been dead than alive, and that was my mindset at the time,' he told the court.
Lamarre-Condon began his evidence on Thursday complaining about colleagues he claimed were homophobic bullies.
Lamarre-Condon's 'joke' about sticking a friend in a surfboard bag
Lamarre-Condon said a comment about sticking a mate in a surfboard bag, days before the alleged murders, was simply 'dark humour'.
'Would you fit in this?' he asked the mate, who cannot be named.
Lamarre-Condon dismissed the comment as a joke.
'(He) wanted to become a police officer, so I made a dark humour joke about: "Oh, how quick do you think my colleagues would be if I put you in this ... and dragged you out of the store, how quick do you think they would turn up?",' he told the jury.
'And then I made a dark sense of humour joke about when you become a cop, you'll start to see things differently.'
Lamarre-Condon is accused of dumping the bodies of his alleged victims in surfboard bags.
Lamarre-Condon is again told to slow down while giving evidence
Beau Lamarre-Condon has been told to speak more slowly while answering questions.
It is the second time the former police officer has been told to drop the pace of his responses to questions.
Everything Lamarre-Condon says needs to be transcribed by court stenographers, who are known to have freakish abilities to transcribe what happens in a court room in real time.
Despite the direction by his own barrister, Lamarre-Condon's pace has not appeared to have been reduced.
Beau Lamarre-Condon tells jury he was planning his suicide but didn't want that act to traumatise the community
Beau Lamarre-Condon has told the jury he did not want to traumatise the general public when he took his own life.
'My mental state throughout the entire period that I was even seeing Jesse throughout 2023 was very on and off, just solely based on work related issues and nothing to do with my social life,' he told Mr Stratton.
The alleged killer said his mental state declined further in February that year as his workload intensified under 'constant harassment and bullying'.
'I was actively taking steps to plan my suicide,' he said.
'So for me, my thought process was: if I was going to take my own life, I would want to do it in a way where it would be secluded and no one would hear or find me if the gun was to go off.
'I didn't want to impact an innocent member of the community to be traumatised or my colleagues and first responders.'
Lamarre-Condon said he went to the Royal National Park with a friend, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to fire off some test shots.
'I just wanted to make sure if there was a gunshot to go off, that no members that lived (there) would hear it from their house to call it in,' he said.
'Because if I was going to commit suicide, again, I don't want anyone to hear a gunshot that's either hiking in the national park or that lives in (the area) to come searching for that sound and to find my dead body that's going to traumatise them for the rest of their life.'
Lamarre-Condon on relationship with Jesse Baird: 'It was intimate'
Beau Lamarre-Condon is back in the witness box for day two of his murder trial.
The former police officer, whom the jury heard only likes to be referred to as Beau Lamarre, made the decision to enter the witness box after the prosecution closed its case on Thursday.
The prosecution case ran for seven weeks, calling dozens of witnesses.
Lamarre-Condon's decision to front the jury himself was only announced to the jury upon the Crown's closing around midday yesterday.
On Friday, Lamarre-Condon was again taken through his version of events by his barrister John Stratton, SC.
Next week, Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC will get his chance to cross examine the alleged double killer before Justice Natalie Adams.
Dressed in a grey suit, white shirt and black tie, Lamarre-Condon sipped water from a paper cup as he was questioned again about his relationship with Jesse Baird.
Lamarre-Condon told Mr Stratton the last time he ever saw Baird alive before his death was on November 18.
Mr Stratton asked Lamarre-Condon if his relationship had been 'exclusive' with Baird.
'The relationship was essentially we're doing things that I guess you could say couples were doing, going to dinners, hanging out a lot, spending a lot of time together, and it was an intimate relationship,' he said.
'But no, we were not exclusive. I was still seeing people at various points throughout my time with Jesse, but it was not exclusive.'
Beau Lamarre-Condon set to re-enter the witness box for the second time in bid to clear his name
Beau Lamarre-Condon is scheduled to re-enter the witness box in his second day of giving evidence at his murder trial.
The alleged killer is expected to give evidence for just half-a-day, with the jury routinely enjoying an early Friday off.
His defence is expected to continue guiding him through his version of events before the prosecution gets its turn at cross-examination.
On Thursday, Lamarre-Condon broke down in tears about five times within the four hours he was in the witness box.
Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of domestic violence-related murder over the deaths of Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies, and one count of break and enter.
The jury witnessed a Lamarre-Condon who appeared thin and pale and often slouched and moved his swivel chair back and forth while giving evidence.
His military-style crew cut was uneven and patchy, and he was repeatedly told that he was speaking too quickly for the court transcribers.
At one stage, he referred to his own 'fragrance'.
Lamarre-Condon spent his time lashing out at allegedly homophobic police colleagues.
When his voice quavered, he was either talking about suicidal ideation and how much the teens he worked with at Youth Command trusted him.
He never teared up when talking about Jesse Baird, his former lover he is accused of murdering.
The trial continues.
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