Former police officer tells court he bought sim card under name ‘Bob Ballard’ because he planned to go to media about alleged bullying from sergeant
Beau Lamarre-Condon has told a Sydney court he obtained a sim card under a pseudonym a month before allegedly murdering two men because he wanted to go to the media about bullying allegations in the police force.
The former police officer is accused of fatally shooting Jesse Baird and his new partner, Luke Davies, with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home in Sydney on 19 February 2024.
He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter.
Sat in the witness box for the seventh day, Lamarre-Condon was asked about purchasing a sim card under the name “Bob Ballard” on 15 January 2024, about a month before the shootings.
Lamarre-Condon told the jury in his double murder trial it had “nothing to do with Jesse Baird”.
He was attempting to compile statements about “bullying from a certain sergeant” but was worried about speaking publicly on the issue, Lamarre-Condon said.
“I was wanting to go and compile all these statements and go to the media,” he told the New South Wales supreme court on Friday.
