Sydney divers search for bodies of same-sex couple allegedly shot dead by jilted police officer

Senior-constable Beau Lamarre-Condon was charged with the murders of former television reporter Jesse Baird, 26, and Baird’s partner Luke Davies, 29

Police divers searched a number of reservoirs on farms in the Bungonia region southwest of Sydney

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A man looks at floral tributes in Sydney at the Paddington residence of Jesse Baird, who police believe may have been murdered. Photo: AP

Published: 6:34pm, 26 Feb 2024

Police divers were searching inland waterways on Monday for the bodies of a same-sex couple allegedly shot dead in Sydney a week earlier by a jilted police officer lover with his service pistol.

Police allege former television reporter Jesse Baird, 26, and his flight attendant partner Luke Davies, 29, were shot dead in Baird’s shared house in the inner-Sydney suburb of Paddington last Monday, New South Wales police force deputy commissioner David Hudson said. Neighbours reported hearing one or more gunshots.

Senior-constable Beau Lamarre-Condon was charged on Friday with the murders of both. He has not entered a plea or applied for release on bail.

Lamarre-Condon, 28, had been in a relationship with Baird that ended late last year.

Police suspect Lamarre-Condon took the bodies in a rented van to a rural property in Bungonia near Goulburn, around 200km (124 miles) southwest of Sydney on Wednesday.

Police conduct a line search near a body of water on a rural property near Bungonia, 170km southwest of Sydney. Divers searched inland waterways on Monday for the bodies of a same-sex couple allegedly shot dead in Sydney a week earlier by a jilted police officer lover with his service pistol. Photo: AP

Police alleged he returned to the property on Thursday after buying weights from a department store that detectives suspect were used to sink the bodies in a waterway.