A buddy of Jesse Baird, who was allegedly murdered by Beau Lamarre-Condon, has lifted the lid on the character of the TV’s hosts relationship with the serving NSW police officer.
Talking to ABC’s 7.30 Isaac Muller stated the pair had been by no means in a relationship, as has beforehand been instructed by police, however moderately had an off-the-cuff “encounter”.
Muller, a producer for the ABC, stated Baird and Lamarre-Condon weren’t shut.
“Jesse briefly had an encounter with Beau. He was not his ex-boyfriend,” he stated.
“They had been by no means going out.”
Channel 10 journalist Hugh Riminton stated Baird had been over the moon after he met new love Luke Davies.
“He’d discovered this new love and he’d advised so a lot of my colleagues of his delight find Luke,” Riminton stated.
“And on the similar time it was overshadowed.”
Lamarre-Condon has been charged with the murders of Mr Baird and his boyfriend of some months Luke Davies.
Police allege he checked out his police subject Glock pistol just a few days earlier than he killed Mr Baird and Mr Davies at Mr Baird’s house in Paddington.
Police are within the strategy of looking out a distant rural property in Bungonia, in NSW’s Southern Tablelands area, for the couple’s our bodies.
It’s believed that Lamarre-Condon, who handed himself into Bondi Police Station on Friday, just isn’t helping officers of their search.
NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson stated on Monday that police had been investigating whether or not Lamarre-Condon had returned to the property on Thursday having travelled there just a few days after the deaths.
“We imagine that it’s attainable the accused, in that hole within the timeline, has returned to that property and retrieved the our bodies and disposed of them some other place,” Mr Hudson stated.
“We’re nonetheless working by means of that concept and we’re clearly commencing and have undertaken vital inquiries in relation to that.
“I can point out that the accused has not disclosed of the place Jesse and Luke are …however it’s our primary precedence at this second to try to find Jesse and Luke to provide the household some solace and be capable to come to phrases with what has occurred.“
Mr Hudson police had been investigating the “hole” within the timeline of Lamarre-Condon’s whereabouts, particularly from 11.30am on Thursday till 8.30pm that day, when he appeared at an acquaintance’s property in Newcastle.
In an expansive press hour-long convention, Mr Hudson gave new and grizzly particulars in regards to the pair’s alleged homicide at Paddington and the whereabouts and exercise of the accused.
Police allege the couple had been killed by Lamarre-Condon inside Mr Baird’s Paddington house someday between 12am and 5:30pm on Monday, and that gunshots had been reported to have been heard within the space.
Mr Hudson stated police would allege Lamarre-Condon then travelled with an acquaintance the day after the alleged killing in a rented van to the Bungonia property, having bought bolt cutters and a padlock.
Whereas on the property, Lamarre-Condon is alleged to have disappeared with the van whereas his acquaintance waited. The girl is now “absolutely co-operating” with police and isn’t accused of any wrongdoing.
Lamarre-Condon is alleged by police to have returned to the Bungonia space on Thursday morning after buying weights and torches earlier than subsequent being seen within the Newcastle space later that night.
Lamarre-Condon known as in sick on Tuesday and failed to point out as much as work the following day. His pistol, which was allegedly fired inside the house, was checked again right into a suburban police station that day.
The 28-year-old appeared earlier than Waverley Native Court docket on Friday afternoon and didn’t apply for bail. His case was adjourned to April 23.
The case has sparked criticism of NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb, who didn’t entrance the media in-person till Monday, in addition to requires NSW Police to not attend Saturday’s Mardi Gras parade.
Ms Webb has responded to the criticism calling it “offensive” and noting that she was earlier than finances estimates on Friday.
-With NCA Newswire
