‘Regarded like dried blood’: employee tells Beau Lamarre-Condon trial about discovering suspicious belongings in skip | Sydney
Brand new AFL shorts, a Qantas card and different bloodied belongings have been present in a dumpster two days after soccer umpire Jesse Baird and flight attendant Luke Davies have been allegedly murdered, a Sydney courtroom has heard.
Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally taking pictures the couple along with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington residence on 19 February 2024.
He has pleaded not responsible to 2 counts of homicide and one cost of aggravated break and enter.
The prosecution has alleged Lamarre-Condon started cleansing up the crime scene instantly after the shootings, earlier than dumping gadgets in a skip bin on the Cronulla Bowls Club.
An announcement from Craig Scott, a greenkeeper on the membership, was learn out within the New South Wales supreme courtroom on Tuesday. It detailed how Scott and a co-worker found the belongings after arriving at work on 21 February 2024 and noticing the lid of the skip bin was propped open with garbage.
“I noticed a number of black plastic bin baggage – I undoubtedly keep in mind these baggage weren’t there the day earlier than,” Scott mentioned within the assertion learn to the jury.
“I opened one of many baggage and eliminated [a] piece of brown clothes … it had purple stains on it – it seemed like dried blood to me. [We] each thought one thing suspicious had gone on.”
As they searched the bin, Scott and his co-worker discovered a silver watch, a leather-based pouch and a Qantas ID card, the courtroom was advised.
Wooden drawers, varied sneakers, clothes and AFL shorts – nonetheless of their plastic packaging – have been additionally found.
Hours after the contents of the skip bin have been reported, two detectives travelled too Baird’s residence, the courtroom heard.
Body-worn digicam footage from the go to was performed to the jury on Monday and launched on Tuesday.
The video confirmed the officers being met on the door by three cleaners, who had been employed by a housemate as a result of Baird was as a result of transfer out that week.
Using Google Translate to speak with the Portuguese-speaking cleaners, the police requested to go searching earlier than telling them to “cease cleansing”.
“You’re not in hassle,” an officer says within the video proven to the courtroom.
“But we’re simply now to declare this a criminal offense scene. We’ve simply bought info that there may be some proof for us.”
Members of the police crime scene investigation crew later attended the Paddington terrace.
The jury on Tuesday was proven greater than 200 pictures from the investigation, together with of partitions, flooring and a fired bullet with traces of blood.
Sen Sgt Bronwyn Lansley advised the courtroom the bullet travelled via a supply of blood earlier than penetrating the wood floors.
An picture taken from the realm beneath the home confirmed a “important quantity of blood has flowed down the joist and saturated the timber”, she mentioned on Tuesday.
Defence lawyer John Stratton SC mentioned throughout his opening assertion that Baird and Davies have been fatally shot in “self-defence” following struggles with the policeman.
Lamarre-Condon instantly started cleansing up the scene as a result of he “panicked”, the jury was advised.
The trial earlier than Justice Natalie Adams continues.
