Beau Lamarre-Condon, the 31-year-old accused of fatally shooting Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon, allegedly told a fellow police officer 'I love you' and 'not everything in the news is true' about a month after his arrest, a court heard. The alleged shootings took place on 19 February 2024 at Baird's home in Paddington, in Sydney's inner east.
The messages under scrutiny
The court heard that Lamarre-Condon sent the messages to a fellow officer roughly a month after being taken into custody. The phrase 'not everything in the news is true' stands out because by that point the case had already drawn heavy coverage. Prosecutors haven't publicly framed the messages as anything more than what was read out in court, and the facts before the court don't establish whether the contact was an attempt to influence a colleague or something else.
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What's clear is that the recipient was a serving police officer, not a family member or partner. That detail matters for how the communications are treated at trial.
A question about gunshot reports
Days before the alleged murders, Lamarre-Condon allegedly asked a fellow police officer how law enforcement would respond to reports of gunshots. The query, as described in court, goes to whether the accused had advance knowledge of police dispatch protocols and response times. Courts treat evidence of planning differently from evidence of a spontaneous act, and this is the kind of detail that can shape which charges proceed and how they're argued.
The timing is notable. The alleged question came before 19 February, not after. Prosecutors will likely point to it as part of a broader sequence of events.
The custody question
The roughly one-month gap between arrest and the 'I love you' message raises a procedural point the court hasn't yet resolved in open testimony: how a charged murder suspect was able to send such a message, and through what channel. If it went out from custody, it bears on prison communication monitoring. If it went out before he was taken into custody, the 'month after arrest' framing would be misleading. The facts as presented don't say which.
The mechanics of the communication are unreported. That's an unresolved thread, and it's one the defence or prosecution could return to.
Where the case sits
Lamarre-Condon was arrested and charged, and the matter is proceeding through the Australian courts. Baird and Davies were the victims named in the proceedings. The court has now heard a portion of the communications evidence, and further hearings are expected as the case moves toward trial.
The next concrete step is the continuation of pre-trial proceedings, where the admissibility and context of the messages are likely to be argued. No trial date has been confirmed in the facts before the court.
There is no crypto angle here. This is a domestic homicide case involving a serving police officer, and nothing in the record connects it to digital assets, exchanges, or market regulation. Traders should treat any market movement around the headline as noise. Bitcoin's own session has been driven by dominance and liquidity dynamics, not by a Sydney courtroom.
