Lamarre-Condon told friend he misinterpreted alleged confession, court hears

Recordings from mid 2024 and late 2025 of conversations between Beau Lamarre-Condon and a friend have been played in his double murder trial.

The accused has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in 2024.

The friend told court he felt Mr Lamarre-Condon was 'trying to change my word' about an alleged confession.

Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon told a friend who visited him in custody that he had misheard or misinterpreted elements of an alleged confession to shooting two people that were included in the friend's witness statement, a court has heard.

Mr Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder over the February 2024 deaths of Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies.

He is accused of shooting the couple with his police pistol in Mr Baird's Paddington share house and is arguing self defence.

The friend, who cannot be identified under a court order, is giving evidence in the sixth week of a Supreme Court trial, where audio recordings of phone calls and a visit with the accused have been played to a jury.

In a recording from April 2024, Mr Lamarre-Condon told the friend to "make sure you don't talk to people about stuff".

The friend replied: "I don't know what you're talking about bro."

In a later call in December 2025, Mr Lamarre-Condon told his friend to make sure he had his "big boy diapers on" ahead of a visit.

In an audio recording of the visit, lasting about 50 minutes and played to the jury on Monday, Mr Lamarre-Condon apologised to the friend for calling him and going to his work on the day of the alleged shooting.

Last week, the witness testified the accused came to his work and told him he had "killed people" with his gun and that the second person was not meant to be shot but he could not leave a witness.

In the December 2025 recording, Mr Lamarre-Condon challenged that account with the friend.

"It's what was said … don't you dare switch up," the friend replied.

"The truth is, you misheard it," Mr Lamarre-Condon told him.

The witness had given a statement to police about the alleged confession, during which he said the accused told him the first person was shot in the head and the second was shot through a door.

"You were under duress man … the way they treated you was disgusting," the defendant told the friend during the recording.

"It doesn't mean people are lying, it means people have misheard or misinterpreted."

Mr Lamarre-Condon's defence team has flagged an alternative version of what took place inside the Brown Street terrace, including two separate struggles with the men involving his police pistol.

"You just need to remember something; I don't believe you're a liar and you're not," the accused said in the recording.

"However, I know that humans … get shit wrong, hear shit wrong."

Mr Lamarre-Condon told him he was "not worried" about the friend going to court, because it was "going to be easy to show what happened to you could have resulted in that you misinterpreted".

"Nothing can be said. What's done is done," the friend said during one point in the conversation.

Mr Lamarre-Condon spoke about cutting ties with Mr Baird, with whom he had been casually involved during parts of 2023, and claimed he "only talked about him for like two or three weeks" and then "didn't give a shit about him".

In court, the friend said that was a lie because the accused "talked about him multiple times over a long time".

During the conversation, the friend said several times to Mr Lamarre-Condon he was becoming frustrated and eventually said he needed air and wanted to leave.

In court on Monday, he said: "I was frustrated at the time, because he kept trying to change my word and make me think what I said wasn't accurate".

"You were rejecting the version he was putting to you?" Crown Prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC asked.

The friend is giving evidence under the protection of a certificate which means his evidence cannot be used to prosecute him, Justice Natalie Adams has explained to jurors.

But it does not protect him against potential perjury or if the evidence is false.

Last week, the court heard the friend was with the accused two days before the alleged murders when he bought a surfboard bag from a store in Miranda.

The accused said he needed to retrieve his surfboard from Mr Baird, the friend told the court.

"He then asked me … you're about the same size as my surfboard, can you stand next to it so I can measure it up to you," he said.

The witness said he remembered Mr Lamarre-Condon did not surf during a trip they took to Bali at the end of 2023.

The bodies of Mr Baird and Mr Davies were found in surfboard bags at rural Bungonia, south of Sydney, eight days after the alleged murders.

The friend has testified that during the Bali trip, Mr Lamarre-Condon wanted to buy a gun silencer.

In the December 2025 recording, he told the friend "you cannot put a silencer on a police-issue firearm" and claimed he was planning to die by suicide in Uluwatu.