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Sydney policeman allegedly disguised himself as Uber Eats rider before murders
Luke Davies (left) and Jesse Baird were allegedly murdered by Beaumont Lamarre-Condon in Feburary 2024
A former police officer accused of using his work gun to kill a Sydney couple was driven by a "jealous infatuation" with his ex, a court has heard.
Beaumont Lamarre-Condon, 31, has pleaded not guilty to two charges of domestic violence-related murder and one of aggravated break and enter.
Prosecutors allege Lamarre-Condon shot his ex-partner, 26-year-old TV presenter Jesse Baird, and Baird's new partner Luke Davies, a 29-year-old Qantas flight attendant, at a home in the Sydney suburb of Paddington in 2024.
The couple's bodies were found in a rural area 200km away, hidden in surfboard bags. The trial is expected to run for three months.
In his opening address on Monday, prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC described how Lamarre-Condon had developed an "obsessive and jealous infatuation" with Baird after a brief romantic relationship.
It manifested itself in a "range of compulsive behaviour", Hatfield said, which escalated when Baird ended all contact in November 2023.
The barrister said Lamarre-Condon used a friend's phone to message Baird and claim he had cancer, stalked his ex-lover, and tampered with his car in the weeks after their break-up.
Beaumont Lamarre-Condon is accused of murdering his former partner, Jesse Baird, and Baird's new boyfriend Luke Davies
On the day of the alleged murders, Lamarre-Condon had set his alarm for 04.30 local time, Hatfield claimed, and sent a text to a friend which read: "I'll try to call you tonight and update you... there's no sign I'm doing it".