The “estranged” dad of alleged killer cop Beau Lamarre-Condon has broken his silence for the first time since his son was charged with the double murder of Channel 10 presenter Jesse Baird and Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies.
Raymond Condon, a security guard who lives in NSW’s northern rivers region, separated from Mr Lamarre-Condon’s mother Coleen when the accused murderer was in primary school.
Speaking to The Daily Mail from his home in Bray Park, Mr Condon said, “I haven’t spoken to Beau yet, no.”
He declined to comment on claims from multiple sources to the publication that the pair were estranged.
It is reported Mr Condon had a strained relationship with his celebrity-chasing son, who lived with his mother and later his uncle.
On Friday last week, the 28-year-old senior constable handed himself in at Bondi Police station and was charged with two counts of murder.
Police believe Mr Baird, 26, and Mr Davies, 29, were shot dead at Mr Baird’s Paddington home on February 19.
Police believe Mr Lamarre-Condon used his police-issued Glock to shoot Mr Baird, 26, and Mr Davies, 29, at Mr Baird’s Paddington home on February 19.
He 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.
It will be alleged in court he planned to kill the TV presenter, with whom he previously had casual intimate encounters, as part of an “escalating” pattern of stalking.
Mr Davies was also allegedly murdered merely for being at the Brown Street sharehouse with his new partner when Mr Lamarre-Condon arrived.
Police allege after moving the bodies to Bungonia in the NSW Southern Tablelands, where they were found stuffed in surfboard bags on Tuesday, Mr 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.”
CCTV footage obtained by 9News shows Mr Lamarre-Condon entering and leaving a Sydney shop on two separate occasions.
In the first clip, he and a friend walk into a Miranda sports store two days before the alleged double murder.
Mr Lamarre-Condon then walks out holding a surfboard bag.
In the second clip, about three hours after the alleged murders, Lamarre-Condon is shown walking into the same store but this time by himself.
He walks out with another surfboard bag.
In another video, a man in a black cap is shown arriving in a black SUV on the morning the couple were allegedly killed.
The man gets out about 25m from Mr Baird’s home, then drives off at 9am — about 50 minutes before the pair were allegedly shot with Lamarre-Condon’s police gun.
Mr Lamarre-Condon allegedly returned to the house the next day in a rented van to move the bodies.
Police allege the surfboard bags were used to transport the bodies, which were found on Tuesday near Bungonia.
Mr Lamarre-Condon is currently at Silverwater prison and is next due to face court on April 23.
— with NCA NewsWire