Beau Lamarre-Condon gave proof for the third day on Monday.
He beforehand instructed the court docket that he went to Jesse Baird’s home on the day of the alleged murders to gather his personal possessions, together with a $24,000 designer Cartier ring.
Requested on Monday how he might afford such luxuries, Lamarre-Condon mentioned he had two facet hustles.
Lamarre-Condon mentioned his annual police wage was about $120,000 as a result of he labored a number of further shifts.
‘I even have a enterprise on the facet … I’ve a swimwear line and I put a number of the cash into Bitcoin,’ he mentioned.
He additionally instructed the court docket he offered Hermès Birkin baggage, making earnings between $10,000 and $100,000.
The previous cop additionally instructed the court docket that he determined to go to the home when Baird wasn’t dwelling as a result of he did not need an apprehended violence order towards him, which might jeopardise his job as a police officer.
He mentioned he introduced his police gun inside with him as a result of leaving it in a automobile, unattended, was unlawful.
Lamarre-Condon instructed the court docket that he determined to put on an Uber Eats outfit into the home as a result of he noticed it inside a bag on the road close to Baird’s dwelling.
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC (pictured beneath proper) requested whether or not he was involved a couple of theft cost from taking the Uber Eats outfit.
‘I wasn’t intending on stealing [the outfit], I used to be intending on placing it straight again,’ he instructed the court docket.
Mr Hatfield requested: ‘So you bought this concept as a result of there is likely to be an outfit in a bag that you may use?’
Lamarre-Condon mentioned: ‘Mr Crown, I wish to remind you that it was raining and there was a jacket and waterproof pants.
‘The bag was partly open and I might see the high-vis jacket.’
Mr Hatfield requested: ‘And you then thought, “This can be a plan, this can be a jacket I can put on”?’
He replied: ‘To keep away from getting an AVO, I assumed it was value it to keep away from getting an AVO.’
Mr Hatfield requested: ‘What a couple of cost of theft or stealing?’
Lamarre-Condon mentioned he wasn’t going to commit larceny, which might contain him taking the objects and never giving them again.
He maintained he was going to return the outfit as soon as he was completed with it.
Lamarre-Condon instructed the court docket he was ‘freaking out’ after the alleged murders, however it did not seem that means in CCTV as a result of he was skilled as a cop to stay calm.
His voice trembled as he instructed the court docket that he initially deliberate at hand himself in to police over the deaths of Baird and Davies.
‘The our bodies have been at the back of the van, I might have nonetheless gone to police,’ he mentioned.
When requested if that was a severe reply, Lamarre-Condon mentioned: ‘Sure that could be a very severe reply, I do not discover this humorous, I do not see this as a joke.’
Mr Hatfield requested why Lamarre-Condon appeared relaxed hours after the alleged murders, whereas strolling into Decathlon with a good friend.
He mentioned that he was skilled as a police officer to stay calm within the face of tragedy.
‘It doesn’t suggest I wasn’t sitting within the bathe crying earlier than that,’ he mentioned.
‘That is somebody I cared about … Jesse was somebody who I cared about and simply since you do not see it on digicam doesn’t suggest I do not care.’
Mr Hatfield requested whether or not he was distressed whereas he was ‘licking his fingers and laughing’ at Sushi Practice in Cronulla after the alleged murders.
Lamarre-Condon then accused the Crown of failing to point out the total footage.
He mentioned the full-length model of the footage confirmed him placing his palms on his temples in misery.
‘I am placing my palms to my temples, I am speaking to [my friend], he is trying down on the desk, we aren’t laughing,’ he mentioned.
‘I am freaking out.’
