Georgia Cook tells jury Lamarre-Condon outlined dumping belongings, hiding bodies in bushland
Friend recounts May 2023 dinner conversation
Georgia Cook, a close friend of Beau Lamarre-Condon, told the NSW Supreme Court on Monday that the conversation occurred during a dinner in May 2023, about nine months before the alleged murders. According to Cook, Lamarre-Condon asked her what she would do if he told her he had killed someone, then asked what she would do with the bodies.
Cook told the jury she responded that she had no idea. She testified that Lamarre-Condon then replied: “After I’d killed them I would take their stuff, I would put it in a dumpster, and I would take their bodies in bushland where nobody would ever find them.”
Describing the 2023 conversation as “very surreal,” Cook told the jury she did not know whether to believe what she had heard. “Hearing a person of power in the police force [say that] – it felt like I didn’t have anywhere to go and I was really scared by what I had heard,” she said.
Prosecution alleges method matched
The prosecution said during its opening statement last week that after Lamarre-Condon allegedly shot Baird and Davies in February 2024, he dumped Baird’s bloodied belongings and furniture into a skip bin in Cronulla. The two bodies were later found on the fence line of a Greek Orthodox monastery in remote bushland in Bungonia, about 200 kilometers from Paddington.
Cook on Friday had also told the court that Lamarre-Condon told her he had been watching Baird from outside his home. The crown alleged in its opening that the former police officer began planning to murder Baird in early 2024.
Defense position
Lamarre-Condon’s defense team has claimed he was acting in self-defense after he disguised himself as an UberEats rider and entered Baird’s home on the day of the shootings.
The trial before Justice Natalie Adams continues.