Beau Lamarre-Condon denies stalking alleged murder victim

Beau Lamarre-Condon has denied stalking and attempting to "manufacture" meetings with alleged murder victim Jesse Baird.Mr Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to murdering his former partner and Mr Baird's new boyfriend Luke Davies.He maintains both died following separate struggles over his police pistol inside Mr Baird's Paddington share house on February 19, 2024.The former NSW Police officer said he went to the property that morning to retrieve his belongings, his casual romance with Mr Baird having ended in November 2023.During his fourth day in the witness box on Tuesday, Mr Lamarre-Condon told the court the pair first met in October 2022 and had a number of sexual encounters before they started going on romantic dates around December of that year.Mr Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to the alleged murders of Mr Baird (left) and Mr Davies (right). (Supplied: Instagram)Prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC put to Mr Lamarre-Condon that he had been "obsessed with [Mr Baird] right from the start".He suggested the fact that Mr Baird was a television presenter contributed to that obsession, with the court hearing Mr Lamarre-Condon was an entertainment reporter in his teens and had encounters with rapper Pitbull and celebrity Kourtney Kardashian.Mr Lamarre-Condon said he was not interested in Mr Baird's job and liked him for who he was as a person.He said he was "smitten" with Mr Baird, but not obsessed with him.The court was shown a message Mr Lamarre-Condon sent to a friend on December 22, 2022 in which he said "I'm in love fml" in reference to a video Mr Baird sent him.Another text read, "It sounds crazy, I love him.""I say I love you to all my friends and people like that all the time," Mr Lamarre-Condon told the court.Mr Hatfield put to Mr Lamarre-Condon that he "fretted" when Mr Baird was slow to respond to his messages, and felt "insecure" about the relationship."Yeah at times I was a bit in my head," Mr Lamarre-Condon said.Breach of privacy admittedThe pair holidayed together at a farm in March 2023, with Mr Lamarre-Condon posting a video of the trip to social media.Mr Lamarre-Condon admitted to going through Mr Baird's Instagram messages on his phone without consent during the holiday because he wanted to see if the television presenter was talking to other men."Curiosity just got the best of me," he said.He told the court he unfollowed two or three people on Mr Baird's Instagram account."I acknowledge that unfollowing people is a breach of his privacy," he said.He would go through Mr Baird's phone again before the couple's first break up in April 2023.Mr Lamarre-Condon said he came across messages from another man who believed he was in an exclusive relationship with Mr Baird.He sent a photo of the messages to at least three friends to ask for their advice, the court heard.Mr Lamarre-Condon said he told Mr Baird he went through his phone on the second occasion, but not the first.Break-up was 'amicable'The pair subsequently split, with Mr Lamarre-Condon saying he was upset but not depressed about the relationship ending."I missed him as a friend as well," he said.He described the break-up as "amicable".Mr Lamarre-Condon accepts he was upset about the break-up. (ABC News: Sharon Gordon)The court was shown messages Mr Lamarre-Condon sent his friends about Mr Baird in early May, including screenshots from the man's Instagram stories.He said he also may have been sent an image taken by a friend of Mr Baird working as an umpire."I definitely wasn't stalking him," he said.He accepted he used a key left outside Mr Baird's house to retrieve his belongings sometime in late April or early May after their first break-up.Mr Lamarre-Condon rejected the suggestion he broke into the property."He did say when we had our very amicable, civil conversation that I could come by anytime to get my belongings," he said.Mr Hatfield accused Mr Lamarre-Condon of monitoring Mr Baird's location using Snapchat maps and attempting to "manufacture" running into his ex-partner after their break-up."I'm going to run into old mate today," Mr Lamarre-Condon said in a message to a friend.Mr Lamarre-Condon said that was an example of "wishful thinking"."I was hoping to run into him whilst at dinner," he said.Prosecutors allege Mr Lamarre-Condon stalked Mr Baird. (Supplied: Instagram)The court was shown more messages in which he tells a friend he did in fact run into Mr Baird, with the friend asking if Mr Lamarre-Condon made the encounter "look like a coincidence"."This reflects you were stalking him and monitoring his location," Mr Hatfield put to Mr Lamarre-Condon."I don't agree," Mr Lamarre-Condon replied.The trial continues.