Live: Beau Lamarre-Condon back in witness box in double murder trial

Beau Lamarre-Condon is back in the witness box giving evidence in his double murder trial.

He is accused of shooting his former partner, Jesse Baird, and his new boyfriend Luke Davies with his police-issue pistol.

Mr Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty in the NSW Supreme Court.

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He says his phone wasn't on airplane mode in the Hertz rental car.

"I never had any intentions to hide my location ... I was actively using my phone," he says.

He says he was making dinner plans on February 19, 2024 - the day of the incident.

He's recounting a conversation with his mum in the car on the way to rent the car.

"I put my phone on airplane mode ... my mum could tell something wasn't right.

"I had told her I was essentially mentally wasn't feeling okay because of work."

His mum was a police officer and had "been through serious incidents".

The conversation was picked back up in their Balmain home.

"She was telling me it was time to leave the police force."

Lamarre-Condon says he needed to help his mum rent a car the following day.

"She needed a hire care from Mascot," he says.

"Her car was in for servicing ... in Marrickville on the 19th of February."

He clarifies it was for a repair and remembers the car was leaking.

"At this point she didn't know how long she just had an estimate ... it wasn't clear at the start.

"She just knew she was taking it in on 19th February, the day of the incident."

On February 18, he went back to Balmain Police Station before about 6pm.

"I put the gun in my bag and I retrieved my personal-issue padlock," he says.

He says he was not trying to give the impression he was returning the gun.

"I opened the gun safe to get my padlock back ... I took my gun."

He's disputing he held the door in a certain way to block CCTV.

On February 18, he retrieved his gun from Balmain for his shift as an officer at a pro-Palestinian march.

He's talking about a conversation with a fellow officer about the murder of Lilie James at a Sydney school.

"I had some pretty general questions," he says, claiming it was the first time he'd heard about it.

On Saturday, February 17, 2024 he's talking about getting a surfboard cover at Miranda Westfield.

"I planned to go get my belongings from Jesse's house ... I wanted to retrieve my surfboard from Jesse's ute so I needed to get a cover for that.

"I needed to get a new surfboard cover" because his old one was "ripped and torn" and discarded.

He says he has been surfing since he was 13.

He's talking about a dark sense of humour joke about the surfboard bag being like a "body bag" to his friend at the Decathlon store.

He's being asked why he transferred his gun from Miranda to Balmain.

Lamarre-Condon says he had a "user pay" shift coming up on February 18 for a pro-Palestinian march and it was usual to "keep their firearm at a station closest to their home".

Back to February 16, he took cash out and went on a date, he says.

He can't remember if he stayed at his date's house or went home.

We're now hearing about February 16, 2024 which is three days before the alleged murders.

He signed out a firearm with "permission" and says he got his car washed.

He says he was thinking about getting his belongings back from Baird's on that day but got his car washed in Zetland.

The accused was off-duty and also had his gun on him, before securing his gun at Balmain Police Station.

After this point at the national park, Lamarre-Condon says he started taking his step dad's medication for depression and anxiety after "really realising the severity and gravity of what I was trying to do to myself".

He's now talking about a "bitter breakup" a friend had with her ex.

She says she was going to go back into his house to get back her belongings while he was not there and "successfully got her belongings back" including a Cartier ring.

He's asked if she "put the idea in" his head.

Lamarre-Condon agrees, saying he "remembered about my Cartier ring, the last time I saw it was the 16th November ... I put it in [Baird's] bedside drawer.

"I fired it a single time at a tree," he says, when asked if he fired the gun.

He says "stuff went in my eyes" when he pulled the trigger.

He fired a second shot through a bag to prevent more material going into his eyes, not to subdue noise.

"Little brown paper bag that is that is never going to change the gun shot," he says.

"It would be pretty silly to think [the bag] would change the sound of the gun shot."

His friend at the time was listening to police radio.

On February 1, 2024 he went to the Royal National Park with a friend, and packed his gun.

He says he signed a firearm out from Miranda Police Station after work.

The accused says he had many conversations with this friend of his thoughts of suicide.

"We had multiple conversations but I didn't tell him why we were going there," he says.

He says he didn't want people to hear the gunshot and find his body, so he kept his police radio on to keep track of people in the area.

"Was there ever an agreement ... that your relationship was an exclusive relationship," his barrister asks.

"... We were doing things couples would be doing ... and it was an intimate relationship but no we were not exclusive, I was still seeing people," he replied.

Lamarre-Condon is being asked about his mental health in February 2024, which he describes as "not good".

"My mental state in the entire period I was seeing Jesse ... was on-and-off ... but yes it did decline in February," he says.

He says this was due to stress and bullying or harassment at work and was "actively taking steps to plan my suicide".

Lamarre-Condon in back in the witness seat and the jury have taken their place.

He's again wearing a grey suit and black tie, and was swivelling in his chair as he waited for the line of enquiry to kick off.

His barrister, John Stratton SC, is asking about the last time he saw Baird before the shooting.

He says the date was on November 18, 2023.

He's now been shown a still from a video he took of Baird on August 23, 2023 at The Carrington in Surry Hills.

The trial is now in its seventh week and jurors have heard evidence or statements from around 90 witnesses.

Lamarre-Condon is giving his account of what happened on the day former TV presenter Jesse Baird and Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies died.

The Crown's case is that Lamarre-Condon developed an obsessive and jealous infatuation with Baird after a casual romance during parts of 2023.

He's pleaded not guilty and is arguing self-defence, with his lawyers previously telling the jury that the deaths were the result of two separate struggles involving the pistol.

The 31-year-old is accused of shooting the pair with his police pistol in Baird's Paddington share house in February 2024.

Lamarre-Condon gave evidence about how he met Baird in October 2022 at a gay club in Sydney's inner-city.

Their relationship started of platonic and sexual, he says, but became romantic by the end of that year.

In April 2023, the accused says he went through Baird's phone and saw messages from another man.

They broke up that month, but intermittently texted and socialised, before getting back together in June 2023.

In August 2023, Lamarre-Condon testified he entered Baird's house in an attempt to go through his phone and was chased out by Baird.

He spoke about his time working with a NSW Police youth command in 2021, including allegations of homophobia and bullying.

Come November 2023, he testified he was hanging out with Baird "four to five" times a week and Baird cut him a key to his Paddington share house.

That same month, their relationship imploded over an Instagram Story Lamarre-Condon posted to bait a man he believed was also dating Baird.

He says he poured water into Baird's petrol tank in a "tit-for-tat" for scratches on his Tesla, and claims he "tried to avoid" the suburb Baird lived in.

We also heard the context for a "help me hide a body" comment Lamarre-Condon made to a friend, which he says was made while helping her recite lines while acting.

The accused discussed his mental health and suicide ideation in that period.

Lamarre-Condon began giving evidence in the witness box.

You can read our recap of what he said here:

Thanks for joining us. We're picking back up the second day of evidence from Beau Lamarre-Condon today.

He's in the Supreme Court accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in February 2024.

Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty and is the first witness called by the defence.