Live: Beau Lamarre-Condon denies making fake Jesse Baird email and Grindr accounts

Beau Lamarre-Condon is giving evidence for a fifth day in his double murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court.

He is accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in February 2024 and has pleaded not guilty.

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The accused has read an exchange he had with a friend on August 17, 2023.

"All I can see is that I asked her for her words of wisdom," Lamarre-Condon says, but is unable to say if he was talking about Baird.

The friend replies he should start "trusting yourself more".

"I can't confirm if this was about Jesse or not, it's not clear," Lamarre-Condon tells court today.

The prosecutor is suggesting the accused had "no reason" to leave anything at Baird's, because the latter was going on an interstate trip.

Lamarre-Condon says they had made plans to meet up.

"There was no invitation from Mr Baird to come over at all, was there?" Hatfield asks.

The prosecutor suggests it was a complete fabrication, and the accused used a key Baird "didn't know he had" to go into the share house and access his phone.

"That's incorrect," Lamarre-Condon replies.

Hatfield asks if he made a "fake Hotmail account" for Leeroy to use on Grindr.

"I don't recall making one up," Lamarre-Condon replies.

"I believe I've seen it [the email] on social media".

He says he "didn't" make an email address on behalf of Baird.

The accused says he got an email address for a man seeing Baird, Leeroy, to see if he had an active account on hook-up app, Grindr.

"[I was] checking an account for [Leeroy], not making an account," he says.

"I didn't make an account and operate it as him."

A screenshot of his iPhone obtained to police has been shown to the accused.

He says it only shows "attempting to create an account, it's not actually created".

He says he can't confirm if it's "100 per cent" Leeroy's email, and says it's something he found on social media.

The prosecutor asks if Lamarre-Condon made "fake Grindr accounts" of Baird, as a female friend has testified.

He says he did not, and didn't tell the friend he did so.

"You trusted her, didn't you?" Hatfield asks.

"No, I wouldn't say I trusted her, she was a general friend," Lamarre-Condon says, but agrees he did tell her about things.

Hatfield has put to the accused that he only slept over twice: during Easter and for a dinner.

"Watching him through the window having sex wasn't connected with getting property back, was it?" Hatfield says.

"Firstly I wasn't watching him having sex," he replies.

He disagrees with the suggestion he wasn't getting his stuff back, and that he was stalking Baird.

The jury have taken their seats and Lamarre-Condon is in the witness box.

Hatfield is asking the accused to recall evidence about going to Baird's home and seeing him having sex with another man.

"Seeing Mr Baird through the window, is that something that happened in fact on two occasions," the prosecutor asks.

He denies sending a disappearing message on Signal a photo of Baird through his window.

The accused agrees he went back to Baird's to try and get clothing left around April 14, 2023 "around the time we went to the escape room".

"I was going to stay at his place for a couple days, but I left during the night."

He says he had packed clothes for the weekend.

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Sydney reporter Phoebe Pin recapped what Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC asked Lamarre-Condon while in the witness box.

Good morning. We're back reporting live on the Beau Lamarre-Condon trial.

The former police officer has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. His team is arguing both deaths were self-defence.

This is the fifth day we've heard from the accused, and just over a third that he's been cross-examined.

A big focus of the Crown prosecution's attention has been text messages and social media DMs Lamarre-Condon sent before the alleged murders.