Beau Lamarre-Condon’s cop friend tearfully describes the moment she realised he was a suspect in alleged double murder: ‘He’s here!’

On Wednesday, Beau Lamarre-Condon’s cop friend broke down in tears while telling the court about the moment he allegedly turned up at her house, grabbed a bucket and started cleaning blood from a rental van.

The former senior constable, known for legal reasons as Fiona Rosso, told the court she was diagnosed with chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and alcoholism due to her job with NSW Police.

Ms Rosso told the court Lamarre-Condon was aware of her mental health struggles when he allegedly went to her house to ‘say goodbye’ on February 22, 2024 – three days after the alleged murders.

She said he scared her because he turned up in the dark and started crying, telling her that he wanted to see her because he was saying goodbye to his loved ones.

Thinking he was going to take his own life, she invited him inside and was surprised when his demeanour changed.

‘He said, “I’ve done something bad, I don’t want to tell you, I don’t want to incriminate you”,’ she told the court.

Lamarre-Condon asked if she’d been watching the news, but she hadn’t due to her work-related depression. He asked her to search Jesse Baird’s name online.

Ms Rosso told the court she saw a number of articles about the disappearance of Baird and his new partner, Luke Davies.

She told the court he ‘started talking about an out-of-body experience and having no control … He kept going on about this out-of-body experience’.

She followed him outside and saw a white van parked near her house. She said the boot door was up so she couldn’t see the number plate.

At that point during her court testimony, Ms Rosso was crying so much she struggled to keep calm.

‘I walked out there with my drink and sat on the gutter and he scrubbed and I sat there in the gutter,’ she told the court.

‘And I don’t know if it was on the other side that he saw a bit of blood to scrub off and he couldn’t get it off so he’d have to paint it.’

She said Lamarre-Condon allegedly told her that he drove 2.5 hours to a farm with ‘a girl’ to dispose of the bodies.

‘They tried to get rid of the bodies and sink them, he said they wouldn’t sink and [the girl] said, “I can’t do this, take me back”, so they drove 2.5 hours back,’ she told the court.

Ms Rosso said Lamarre-Condon told her about one occasion when he was at Baird’s house, showing him his police-issued gun.

‘Jesse accidentally let off a round, it went into the wall, they both tried to get the bullet out, or he had to go back and patch it out, and I was like, “Oh my God, you’re basically telling me you’ve just killed Jesse”,’ she told the court.

The following morning, on February 23, there were calls from Ms Rosso’s phone to Lamarre-Condon’s mother Coleen and his uncle Brian.

Ms Rosso told the court she didn’t know those phone numbers were saved in her phone and that she had never spoken to either of them.

Texts on Ms Rosso’s phone, read to the court, showed a conversation with Coleen Lamarre.

Ms Rosso said she did not send the texts, but that Lamarre-Condon had been using her phone because his was in flight mode.

The text read: ‘Ivy’s dad, or are you having a hot chocolate?’

Ms Lamarre replied: ‘Hot chocolate.’

There was a thumbs-up emoji, sent from Ms Rosso’s phone.

Ms Rosso told the court that Ivy was Lamarre-Condon’s dog.

‘When those messages came through, I was like, “What’s hot chocolate?” and he said there was a search warrant happening at his mum’s house in Balmain,’ she told the court.

‘It was a code word for search warrant – hot chocolate was a code.’