A friend of Jesse Baird, who was allegedly murdered by Beau Lamarre-Condon, has lifted the lid on the nature of the TV’s hosts relationship with the serving NSW police officer.
Speaking to ABC’s 7.30 Isaac Muller said the pair were never in a relationship, as has previously been suggested by police, but rather had a casual “encounter”.
Muller, a producer for the ABC, said Baird and Lamarre-Condon were not close.
“Jesse briefly had an encounter with Beau. He was not his ex-boyfriend,” he said.
“They were never going out.”
Channel 10 journalist Hugh Riminton said Baird had been over the moon after he met new love Luke Davies.
“He’d found this new love and he’d told so many of my colleagues of his delight in finding Luke,” Riminton said.
“And at the same time it was overshadowed.”
Lamarre-Condon has been charged with the murders of Mr Baird and his boyfriend of a few months Luke Davies.
Police allege he checked out his police issue Glock pistol a few days before he killed Mr Baird and Mr Davies at Mr Baird’s home in Paddington.
Police are in the process of searching a remote rural property in Bungonia, in NSW’s Southern Tablelands region, for the couple’s bodies.
It is believed that Lamarre-Condon, who handed himself into Bondi Police Station on Friday, is not assisting officers in their search.
NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said on Monday that police were investigating whether Lamarre-Condon had returned to the property on Thursday having travelled there a few days after the deaths.
“We believe that it is possible the accused, in that gap in the timeline, has returned to that property and retrieved the bodies and disposed of them somewhere else,” Mr Hudson said.
“We are still working through that theory and we are obviously commencing and have undertaken significant inquiries in relation to that.
“I can indicate that the accused has not disclosed of where Jesse and Luke are ...but it is our number one priority at this moment to try and locate Jesse and Luke to give the family some solace and be able to come to terms with what has occurred.“
Mr Hudson police were investigating the “gap” in the timeline of Lamarre-Condon’s whereabouts, specifically from 11.30am on Thursday until 8.30pm that day, when he appeared at an acquaintance’s property in Newcastle.
In an expansive press hour-long conference, Mr Hudson gave new and grizzly details about the pair’s alleged murder at Paddington and the whereabouts and activity of the accused.
Police allege the couple were killed by Lamarre-Condon inside Mr Baird’s Paddington home sometime between 12am and 5:30pm on Monday, and that gunshots were reported to have been heard in the area.
Mr Hudson said police would allege Lamarre-Condon then travelled with an acquaintance the day after the alleged killing in a rented van to the Bungonia property, having purchased bolt cutters and a padlock.
While at the property, Lamarre-Condon is alleged to have disappeared with the van while his acquaintance waited. The woman is now “fully co-operating” with police and is not accused of any wrongdoing.
Lamarre-Condon is alleged by police to have returned to the Bungonia area on Thursday morning after acquiring weights and torches before next being seen in the Newcastle area later that evening.
Lamarre-Condon called in sick on Tuesday and failed to show up to work the next day. His pistol, which was allegedly fired inside the home, was checked back into a suburban police station that day.
The 28-year-old appeared before Waverley Local Court on Friday afternoon and did not apply for bail. His case was adjourned to April 23.
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The case has sparked criticism of NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb, who did not front the media in-person until Monday, as well as calls for NSW Police to not attend Saturday’s Mardi Gras parade.
Ms Webb has responded to the criticism calling it “offensive” and noting that she was before budget estimates on Friday.
-With NCA Newswire
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