Beau Lamarre-Condon: Former colleague called police after Newcastle visit

Police have revealed a former officer who worked with Beau Lamarre-Condon called a hotline after his late night visit to her Newcastle home last week.

A former police colleague of Beau Lamarre-Condon was so alarmed by his alleged behaviour during his appearance at her Newcastle home last week that she called Crime Stoppers, police say.

Constable Lamarre-Condon is alleged to have driven a hired van to the suburb of Lambton late last Thursday after he used it to dispose of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies’ bodies.

The serving police officer was the next day charged with the Sydney couple’s murder, after allegedly using his police issued Glock to shoot them in Mr Baird’s Paddington home on February 19.

It will be alleged in court the 28-year-old had planned to kill TV presenter Mr Baird, 26, with whom he previously had casual intimate encounters, as part of an “escalating” pattern of stalking.

Mr Davies, 29, was also allegedly murdered merely for being at the Brown St sharehouse with his new partner when Constable Lamarre-Condon arrived.

Jesse Baird (left) and Luke Davies were allegedly murdered last week. Picture Instagram

Police allege after moving the bodies to Bungonia in the NSW Southern Tablelands, where they were found stuffed in surfboard bags on Tuesday, Constable Lamarre-Condon drove to Newcastle on February 22.

He allegedly asked a former work colleague, Renee Fortuna, for a hose to clean out the Toyota van he had hired from a Mascot business after the two men were killed.

Ms Fortuna, who had previously left the force, is not accused of any wrongdoing or having any knowledge of the alleged murders.

Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald has now revealed Ms Fortuna tipped off police by calling a hotline after Constable Lamarre-Condon’s alleged late night visit.

“That person is a former officer,” he told 10 News.

“After the accused attended her house, she became suspicious of what his motives were and (about) some of his statements,” he said police will allege.

“And she subsequently contacted Crime Stoppers straight after that.”

Police conducted searches on Karoola Rd, Lambton – about 160km away from the Paddington home where police say Mr Baird and Mr Davies died – on Friday morning.

Beau Lamarre-Condon worked in the youth command.

Renee Fortuna was a senior constable for the NSW Police. Picture: Facebook

Both the accused and Ms Fortuna had worked together in the NSW Police youth command based in Sydney.

A picture posted to social media shows the two standing by a police car and wearing COVID-19 masks outside Woolloomooloo PCYC in 2021.

Constable Lamarre-Condon remained in the youth command until the day of his arrest on Friday, when he handed himself in to Bondi police station.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has revealed she has begun a process to have the accused man dismissed from the force.

Beau Lamarre-Condon and Renee Fortuna at work in 2021. Picture: Facebook

Assistant Commissioner Fitzgerald said police allege the murders of Mr Baird and Mr Davies came at the crescendo of an “escalating process” of harassment.

“What we will allege is that … he keyed (Mr Baird’s) car, he broke into his house, and that he poured water into his vehicle engine block,” the senior officer said.

“Unfortunately, none of that was reported to police.”

It will be alleged Constable Lamarre-Condon bought one surfboard bag two days before the men died as part his plot to kill Mr Baird.

More new details of the alleged crime emerged on Wednesday, with police now alleging the bodies of Mr Baird and Mr Davies were hidden in the backyard of the Paddington home on Monday last week.

Mr Baird’s two female housemates are believed to have slept in the house without knowing their friend and his partner lay dead outside.

Mourners have gathered outside the Paddington home where Mr Baird lived. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Monique Harmer

Constable Lamarre-Condon allegedly returned to the home after buying the second of two surfboard bags police say he used to hide the bodies.

The bodies were allegedly dumped at a property in Bungonia, near Goulburn, on Wednesday, February 21.

Police will allege Constable Lamarre-Condon was spooked about what a female friend he brought with him might suspect, and so moved the bodies to a nearby property the next day.

The friend who accompanied the accused to the first Bungonia property was not Ms Fortuna, and has also assisted police in the investigation.

Police say she was an “innocent agent” and she is not accused of any wrongdoing.

It will also be alleged in court he had obtained bullets in the weeks before the incident as part of a plot to kill Mr Baird.

Police will also allege that the weapon used in the murders was returned to Balmain police station on Tuesday, several days after he had checked it out of Miranda police station for a shift at a protest in Sydney’s CBD on Sunday.

Constable Lamarre-Condon allegedly led police to the location of the bodies after speaking with a lawyer on Tuesday.

He remains in custody ahead of his next court appearance in April.