THIS is the disturbing moment an Aussie police officer accused of killing his ex as well as his new boyfriend went shopping with a childhood friend – while the two bodies were allegedly stashed in his trunk.
CCTV footage shows Beau Lamarre-Condon driving a white HiAce rental van to a car park outside a branch of Bunnings, a home improvement warehouse in Goulburn.
The 31-year-old is accused of fatally shooting and his partner, Luke Davies, with his weapon before last year.
He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and another charge of aggravated break and enter.
The court heard that Lamarre-Condon was joined by his friend, known by the pseudonym Elizabeth Kennedy for legal reasons.
After parking the van, the pair are seen walking into the store to look at angle grinders and consulting a staff member.
Kennedy insisted she did not know there were – but told the court that her friend had asked her to pay for his shopping.
It was that same tool that Lamarre-Condon is alleged to have later used to break the padlock on the fence at Cella Farm before trying to sink his victims’ bodies, News.co.au reported.
A Bunnings Goulburn employee recalled a man in an orange shirt telling him, “We are from Sydney, staying at a friend’s farm and we have locked ourselves out of the property”.
“He attempted to explain the location where the farm was… (he) said the letter B in a stutter,” according to the man’s statement read to the jury.
“I said ‘Bungonia?’ …he said ‘Yeah, that’s it’.”
The employee showed the man how to use the tool after he purchased it as he did not know how, the jury was told.
Meanwhile, Kennedy told the court that they spent more than an hour at the farm.
She added: “He said he knew (the farm) from an old friend.
“He said he knew the owners, and then he said the cattle was going to get out so he had to go break in and save the cattle.”
Lamarre-Condon allegedly asked her to turn her phone off and not text anyone during the drive to the farm.
Kennedy recalled seeing the blue tarp in the back of the van, but when she questioned him about it, he said he was moving furniture.
She further told the court that on the drive back, the defendant was “very quiet… like something went wrong” and had told her that he would have to return to the farm.
“I did ask why he had to come back, and he said, ‘Don’t worry, I can’t tell you … I don’t want to involve you’,” she said.
“He was very quiet on the way back, it seemed like something went wrong … He wouldn’t tell me about it.
“He just kept saying, ‘You don’t need to know, I’m taking you home’.”
The prosecution claims the ex-cop developed a jealous infatuation with Jesse, who ended their brief, at-times casual connection in November 2023, and that he had stalked him in the lead-up to the alleged murders.
He had previously dated the TV star – but the journalist cut all contact with him in November 2023 after he realised that he had been going through his phone, the court heard.
Prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC said Lamarre-Condon had developed an “obsessive and jealous infatuation” with Jesse after the brief romantic relationship.
The “compulsive behaviour” escalated after the break up, according to Hatfield.
He allegedly stalked his ex-lover, broke into his home and damaged his car in the weeks after their breakup.
The trial continues.
