Beau Lamarre-Condon surgery alleged: court hears timeline
A Sydney court heard that Beau Lamarre-Condon underwent a minor operation two days after Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were allegedly killed. The surgeon said…
A hospital visit two days after the alleged killings has become part of the evidence in the trial of former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon in Sydney. The surgeon told the court that the operation was minor and would not have physically restricted him.
Lamarre-Condon is accused of fatally shooting Jesse Baird and Luke Davies at Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter.
The surgeon said Lamarre-Condon underwent the operation at St Vincent’s hospital on the morning of 21 February 2024. A statement read to the New South Wales supreme court said the procedure took place at 7.30am.
“The procedure I performed was of a minor nature and would not lead to any physical restrictions,” the surgeon said in his statement.
Hospital visit and CCTV evidence
The doctor said he had first met Lamarre-Condon when the officer arrived for an emergency presentation in March 2023. He underwent surgery that day, returned for follow-up appointments and recurrent issues, and had another operation in December 2023.
By 2024, the surgeon said, Lamarre-Condon was “booked in for a final operation which I performed on 21 February 2024”. He was placed in a short-stay ward and discharged two hours later. The surgeon said there were no sutures and no follow-up was required; the jury heard his demeanour appeared “unremarkable”.
The court also heard evidence from CCTV footage played on Monday and Tuesday. It showed Lamarre-Condon travelling between Baird’s home and Bunnings Alexandria on the day after the alleged killings to buy gumboots and other cleaning equipment.
Further footage showed him at the hospital on 21 February, then later at Bunnings in Rockdale, where he bought a tarpaulin, tools and other items, the court was told. The prosecution said he drove that afternoon to Bungonia, the area where Baird and Davies’ bodies were eventually found.
The timing of the operation forms part of the sequence prosecutors have presented about the days after the alleged killings. The evidence also gives the jury the surgeon’s account of whether the procedure would have limited Lamarre-Condon’s movement. The surgeon said it would not.
Prosecution and defence accounts
The prosecution alleges Lamarre-Condon used his police service weapon to kill the couple. The defence disputes that account, saying Baird and Davies were accidentally shot during two separate struggles and that Lamarre-Condon acted in “self-defence”.
Defence lawyer John Stratton SC said Lamarre-Condon cleaned the scene and disposed of the bodies because he “panicked considerably”. Those claims are part of the defence case; the murder charges remain allegations, and the accused has pleaded not guilty.
The trial before Justice Natalie Adams continues. The court heard the surgeon’s statement on Tuesday, alongside footage showing the hospital visit and later trip to Bunnings in Rockdale.
Source: theguardian.com
