‘Make sure you don’t talk’: Recorded conversations with Lamarre-Condon played in court

October 26, 2026 — 11:58am

Accused killer Lamarre-Condon was captured in a recorded call from prison telling a friend that he “should make sure you don’t talk to people”.

Lamarre-Condon’s Supreme Court trial heard recordings of a series of conversations between the accused and his friend in 2024 and 2025, after the former NSW police officer was arrested over the alleged murder of Sydney couple of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.

The friend, whose identity cannot be reported due to a court order, gave evidence on Monday in Lamarre-Condon’s Supreme Court murder trial about the contents of the conversations while the accused was in prison.

In one call, on April 8, 2024, Lamarre-Condon said to his friend: “Make sure you don’t talk to people about stuff, you know what I mean?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, bro,” the friend replied.

Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC, put to the friend on Monday that he was “putting on a bit of a voice” in the call. “Sounds like it, yes,” the friend replied.

The court heard that by this date the friend had provided statements to police on February 23 and 24 and March 12. He has given evidence in court about Lamarre-Condon buying a surfboard cover shortly before the alleged murders, and telling him later that he had killed two people.

Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder over the shooting deaths of Baird, 26, a former Network Ten producer and presenter, and Davies, 29, a Qantas flight attendant, on February 19, 2024. The bodies of Baird and Davies were found in Bungonia, near Goulburn, in two layers of surfboard bags on February 27, 2024.

In a later call, more than a year later on December 14, 2025, Lamarre-Condon refers to the men being due to speak to each other in person later that day and tells him to “bring your big boy diapers”.

Asked by the prosecution what he believed the accused meant, the friend said: “We were going to have a conversation that might not make me feel too good.”

Lamarre-Condon told the man in a further recorded conversation that day, during the friends’ face-to-face meeting, that he had been suicidal from late 2023 because of trauma from work.

The accused told his friend that this was why he took him on a drive to the Royal National Park in Sydney’s south in early 2024, where he used police training bullets to shoot his service pistol twice into bushland and asked his friend how loud the gunshots were.

Lamarre-Condon said he was planning to return to that location alone and take his own life. “If they think I’m a missing person, perfect,” he said of his thinking at the time.

The accused told his friend that he was “upset like anyone is” after Baird ended their casual relationship in November 2023, but “it’s normal”.

He said that within two or three weeks he “didn’t really give a f---king shit about him” and was “dating someone new in February”.

Lamarre-Condon said that he entered Baird’s Paddington share house to “get my shit back” after their breakup and was “not doing anything wrong”.

The accused also told his friend that “you cannot put a silencer on a police-issued f---ing firearm”. The friend told the court on Friday that Lamarre-Condon had been trying to buy a silencer in December 2023 or February 2024.

Lamarre-Condon told his friend that he was a police officer by the time he was 21 and “you’re not fully self-aware in the way that I am”.

The friend said during the conversation that he was getting frustrated and was close to leaving.

“What you’re telling me might not be the truth,” the man said. “I’m really trying to stay calm.”

The friend said of Lamarre-Condon entering Baird’s home on the day of the alleged murders: “How is it not break and enter?”

The accused replied: “He got a key cut for me. It’s technically not. He gave consent. It actually doesn’t meet the definition. It’s trespass.

“Normal people do this on an everyday basis [retrieving belongings from an ex-partner’s home].”

Lamarre-Condon told his friend earlier in the conversation: “I fully take accountability that you’re involved because of me now.”

The friend has given evidence that Lamarre-Condon told him he killed two people and the second person was killed to eliminate a witness. The accused told his friend he had never said this.

“Don’t you dare switch up,” the friend replied. Lamarre-Condon suggested to him that he was wrong in his recollection of events.

The Crown case is that Lamarre-Condon had his police-issued Glock pistol with him for a work shift on Sunday, February 18, the day before the alleged murders, and pretended to return it to a police gun safe at Balmain, near his home, later that day.

“He retained it despite having no authorised reason to do so,” Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC, said in his opening address to the jury.

The Crown alleges Lamarre-Condon pretended to retrieve the pistol from Balmain on February 20, before he returned the weapon that was already in his possession to Miranda police station, where he was based.

The trial continues.

Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732) or the Men’s Referral Service on 1300 766 491 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.

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