Jurors shown distressing photos of the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies stuffed inside surfboard bags – after top cop broke down on the stand during Beau Lamarre-Condon’s murder trial

On Tuesday, the court heard Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly spent $160 on flowers and roped his own mother into an elaborate ploy to trick Jesse Baird.

Lamarre-Condon posted a generic photo of flowers to his ‘close friends’ on Instagram, which meant only a select group of people could see it – excluding Baird.

The flowers photo had the caption, ‘When he’s in Melbourne but still sends you these…’, implying that Baird had sent them to him.

Baird found out about the post because a friend sent him a screenshot of the post in November 2023, just after it was uploaded. He then confronted Lamarre-Condon.

In court on Tuesday, Senior Constable Nicole Harvell (pictured below) said Lamarre-Condon allegedly lied to Baird, telling Baird his stepfather had actually sent the flowers to his mother, Coleen Lamarre.

Ms Harvell told the court Lamarre-Condon went to a florist, paid them to recreate the bouquet and fabricated a note to her from his stepfather.

He then asked his mother to pose with the flowers and the fabricated note and sent the photo to Baird.

When Baird asked him about the Instagram post, Lamarre-Condon replied with a long-winded message about his honesty.

Ms Harvell told the court she met Lamarre-Condon during a six-hour shift at a Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert in Sydney on February 4, 2023.

She said about 80 per cent of their conversation revolved around his ‘obsession’ with Baird, as did subsequent conversations throughout their almost year-long friendship.

Ms Harvell also said Lamarre-Condon was ‘becoming more and more paranoid about people Jesse may have been communicating with or seeing other people’.

‘It seemed like he was getting quite worried that Jesse was not as into him or seeing other people,’ she told the court.

The court heard Lamarre-Condon ended up texting Ms Havell screenshots of his conversations with Baird.

She said Lamarre-Condon had ‘somehow’ accessed Baird’s phone and found out about other men he was seeing.

He ended up texting her, saying, ‘So I did a f***ing thing’ with a facepalm emoji.

He asked her to look at his ‘close friends’ story on Instagram.

Ms Harvell told the court she couldn’t exactly remember what the story was about, but she recalled it related to his situation with Baird at the time.

Lamarre-Condon replied: ‘So I posted those stories because I was triggered.’

The contents of the Instagram stories are unclear.

Senior Sergeant James Woodbury told the court that he coordinates mandatory firearm conduct training for police officers.

Mr Woodbury said Beau Lamarre-Condon completed his annual training in January 2024 – a month before he allegedly fatally shot Baird and Davies (pictured together, above).

During the training, officers are taught and reminded how to handle firearms safely, and shoot moving targets.