Jesse Baird was supposed to start a new job on the day he was allegedly murdered by Beau Lamarre Condon - as boss tells court she received text from him the day after he died
Jesse Baird was supposed to start a new job as an executive producer for a shark documentary on the day he died.
The Crown prosecutor read a statement by the owner of a television production company, Lana Thrupp.
Ms Thrupp said she advertised a producer position in early February 2024 and received an application from Baird.
She interviewed him over the phone and was 'very impressed' by his enthusiasm.
'I thought he was amazing, he seemed really keen and like a lovely person,' she said.
Baird was offered the job on February 13 and quickly sent his employment forms to Ms Thrupp.
He was due to start working from home on call sheets and location scouting on Monday, February 19 - the day he was allegedly murdered.
In her statement, Ms Thrupp said she sent Baird a number of emails between Monday and Tuesday, all of which went unanswered.
Ms Thrupp had planned to call Baird's mother, who was listed as his emergency contact, until she received a reply from his phone at 10.57pm on February 20 - the day after he died.
The text read: 'Hey Lana sorry to do this to you, but after a lot of thought, I think it would be best if I resign immediately.
'I'm sorry to do this to you but I need to focus on myself.'
Beau Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of domestic violence-related murder and one count of break and enter.
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Jesse Baird was supposed to start a new job on the day he was allegedly murdered - with employer receiving text a day after he died
Jesse Baird (pictured) was supposed to start a new job as an executive producer for a shark documentary on the day he died.
The Crown prosecutor read a statement by the owner of a television production company, Lana Thrupp.
Ms Thrupp said she advertised a producer position in early February 2024 and received an application from Baird.
She interviewed him over the phone and was 'very impressed' by his enthusiasm.
'I thought he was amazing, he seemed really keen and like a lovely person,' she said.
Baird was offered the job on February 13 and quickly sent his employment forms to Ms Thrupp.
He was due to start working from home on call sheets and location scouting on Monday, February 19 - the day he was allegedly murdered.
In her statement, Ms Thrupp said she sent Baird a number of emails between Monday and Tuesday, all of which went unanswered.
At 10.42am on Tuesday, she sent him a text: 'Hi Jesse, it's Lana, just checking you're working today, I sent you a few emails and I haven't heard back.'
She became concerned when calls to Baird's phone went straight to voicemail because he appeared to be very excited about the role and had earlier been responding quickly to emails.
Baird's mother was listed as his emergency contact on his employment forms.
Ms Thrupp had planned to call her until she received a reply from Baird's phone at 10.57pm on February 20 - the day after he died.
The text read: 'Hey Lana sorry to do this to you, but after a lot of thought, I think it would be best if I resign immediately.
'I'm sorry to do this to you but I need to focus on myself.'
Ms Thrupp asked him to delete correspondence about the television series and abandoned her plans to contact his mother.
She later found out Baird died on February 19 - the day he was supposed to start work.
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Trial to resume at 10am, Crown's case will conclude
Beau Lamarre-Condon's murder trial was not heard on Monday.
The trial will resume at 10am on Tuesday.
Police technical expert Jonas O'Brien will finish his evidence, followed by the final witnesses for the Crown.
The prosecution is expected to conclude by the time court adjourns for the day on Tuesday afternoon.
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Beau Lamarre-Condon's murder trial: Recap
Last week, Jesse Baird's (pictured with Luke Davies) phone records were shown to the court.
The records show the cell towers Baird's phone connected to in the hours before and after he was allegedly killed by Beau Lamarre-Condon on February 19, 2024.
Police technical expert Jonas O'Brien told the court Baird's phone connected to different towers as he slept on the night of February 18.
The following morning, around the time he died, Baird received texts and calls from a friend, which went unanswered.
Mr O'Brien said Baird's phone appeared to have been turned off after that.
Texts were sent to the phone, but they weren't received because the phone was off. One text was from the insurance company, Medibank.
He told the court the phone appeared to have been turned on and connected to a wifi network at about 4.45pm that day because the pending texts were delivered.
Texts from Auto General and Rafflesaint were received until about 6pm, when the phone was turned off again.
Other texts from Blue Glue, Rafflesaint and Vodafone were not received due to the phone being off.
On February 20, the phone was switched back on and hit a tower in the Paddington area, where Baird lived, but was then turned off again until about 11pm that night.
Baird's phone appeared to turn off permanently on February 21.
Luke Davies sent his final text message to Aussie Enterprise and Industry at about 9.12am on the day he died.
Davies' phone records were shown to the court on Friday afternoon.
About 50 minutes later, at 9.51am, he phoned NSW Police.
At that time, Beau Lamarre-Condon had allegedly broken into Baird's home in Paddington - where Davies was staying - and opened fire.
NSW Police tried to call him back, but the calls went to voicemail.
Davies received calls later that afternoon, including from someone in Bondi, but the phone appeared to have been turned off.
On February 20, Davies' mother Sandra tried to call him a number of times.
She never got through because the phone was off.
The court also heard from a former cop friend of Lamarre-Condon who said she was terrified he might 'kill me too' after he showed up at her house to scrub blood from a van.
The friend, known as Fiona Rosso for court reporting purposes, told the NSW Supreme Court last week that police officer Lamarre-Condon appeared at her house on February 22, 2024 - three days after he allegedly killed two people.
She alleged that he said: 'I've done something bad, I don't want to tell you, I don't want to incriminate you.'
Lamarre-Condon asked her to search Jesse Baird's name online.
She saw a number of articles about the disappearance of Baird, a television presenter, and his new Qantas flight attendant partner, Luke Davies.
Ms Rosso told the court that she followed Lamarre-Condon outside to a white van parked near her house. She said he started scrubbing blood from the interior.
She started looking up Baird's name again and saw that a police officer was a suspect.
'When reading the articles, I saw [the number for] Crime Stoppers and I just wanted to scream, "He's here! He's here!"' she told the court.
Ms Rosso sobbed as she told the court that she didn't know if she was 'part of the plan where he could now kill me too'.
'I didn't want to provoke Beau to hurt me.'
Justice Natalie Adams later told the jury that Ms Rosso feared for her life, but there was no evidence that Lamarre-Condon was ever going to harm her.
