The police officer accused of killing Jesse Baird and Luke Davies sought help from two friends to hide evidence following their deaths, NSW Police have alleged.
At a press conference on Monday, NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson offered an update on the investigation into Beau Lamarre-Condon’s alleged actions after he allegedly shot dead Mr Baird, 26, and Mr Davies, 29, with his police pistol at a home in Paddington on Monday of last week.
Authorities have now expanded a search for the bodies of the couple to include a dam on a property in Bungonia, south of Goulburn.
The Deputy Commissioner confirmed police had received a tip off from a friend of the accused murderer who they believe unknowingly assisted Lamarre-Condon in hiding the remains.
“The accused, we believe, attended the Bungonia area with an acquaintance who was not involved in anything but has assisted police with their enquiries,” he said.
“We believe that acquaintance assisted the accused in purchasing an angle grinder and a padlock from a local hardware store in that area before driving to a rural property in Bungonia.
“The angle grinder was used to sever a padlock from a gate of that particular rural property and subsequently that padlock was replaced with a padlock purchased from that hardware store.
“The acquaintance was left at the top of the property for a period of about 30 minutes, the accused disappeared for that period in the HiAce van before returning to pick up the acquaintance and then they returned to Sydney later.”
Deputy Commissioner Hudson added that police believed Lamarre-Condon may have disposed of Mr Baird and Mr Davies’ remains at that time, with the constable having purchased weights at a department store around 11pm that evening which authorities believe he may have used to ensure the bodies were hidden.
However they believe he later became suspicious of his friend and may have subsequently moved the bodies to a different part of the property or elsewhere.
More to come.
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