Texts asking for 'words of wisdom' read discussed
The accused has read an exchange he had with a friend on August 17, 2023.
"All I can see is that I asked her for her words of wisdom," Lamarre-Condon says, but is unable to say if he was talking about Baird.
The friend replies he should start "trusting yourself more".
"I can't confirm if this was about Jesse or not, it's not clear," Lamarre-Condon tells court today.
Lamarre-Condon denies using key Baird 'didn't know he had'
The prosecutor is suggesting the accused had "no reason" to leave anything at Baird's, because the latter was going on an interstate trip.
Lamarre-Condon says they had made plans to meet up.
"There was no invitation from Mr Baird to come over at all, was there?" Hatfield asks.
"There was," he replies.
The prosecutor suggests it was a complete fabrication, and the accused used a key Baird "didn't know he had" to go into the share house and access his phone.
"That's incorrect," Lamarre-Condon replies.
Accused denies making fake email for Baird
Hatfield asks if he made a "fake Hotmail account" for Leeroy to use on Grindr.
"I don't recall making one up," Lamarre-Condon replies.
"I believe I've seen it [the email] on social media".
He says he "didn't" make an email address on behalf of Baird.
Email to check if Grindr account active
The accused says he got an email address for a man seeing Baird, Leeroy, to see if he had an active account on hook-up app, Grindr.
"[I was] checking an account for [Leeroy], not making an account," he says.
"I didn't make an account and operate it as him."
A screenshot of his iPhone obtained to police has been shown to the accused.
He says it only shows "attempting to create an account, it's not actually created".
He says he can't confirm if it's "100 per cent" Leeroy's email, and says it's something he found on social media.
Lamarre-Condon says he didn't make a Grindr account for Baird
The prosecutor asks if Lamarre-Condon made "fake Grindr accounts" of Baird, as a female friend has testified.
He says he did not, and didn't tell the friend he did so.
"You trusted her, didn't you?" Hatfield asks.
"No, I wouldn't say I trusted her, she was a general friend," Lamarre-Condon says, but agrees he did tell her about things.
Disagreement over stalking allegation
Hatfield has put to the accused that he only slept over twice: during Easter and for a dinner.
Lamarre-Condon has disagreed.
"Watching him through the window having sex wasn't connected with getting property back, was it?" Hatfield says.
"Firstly I wasn't watching him having sex," he replies.
He disagrees with the suggestion he wasn't getting his stuff back, and that he was stalking Baird.
Court's in session
The jury have taken their seats and Lamarre-Condon is in the witness box.
Hatfield is asking the accused to recall evidence about going to Baird's home and seeing him having sex with another man.
"Seeing Mr Baird through the window, is that something that happened in fact on two occasions," the prosecutor asks.
"No it was not," he replies.
He denies sending a disappearing message on Signal a photo of Baird through his window.
The accused agrees he went back to Baird's to try and get clothing left around April 14, 2023 "around the time we went to the escape room".
"I was going to stay at his place for a couple days, but I left during the night."
He says he had packed clothes for the weekend.
Timeline recap
Baird and Lamarre-Condon met in October 2022
It started out casual, but became more romantic towards the end of the year
Lamarre-Condon says he was hanging out with Baird regularly in the new year
In March 2023, Baird and Lamarre-Condon went to a farm, and the accused says he went through Baird's phone
The next month, he admits to going through Baird's phone again and seeing messages from a man in the Gold Coast on Instagram
They break up for the first time in April 2023
Baird and Lamarre-Condon aren't speaking in early May, but are friendly again by the middle of the month
Lamarre-Condon says he took Baird's phone and wallet from his room in August 2023
In November 2023 they break up again over an Instagram post Lamarre-Condon posted of flowers, insinuating they were from Baird
He says the last time he saw Baird was on November 18, 2023
The accused says he had begun dating another man by January 2024
He had gone to Bali with a male friend, where he investigated getting a gun and silencer. He returned to Australia on January 7, 2024
Early February 2024, he says he tested a firearm in a national park with the intention to kill himself
He remembers an expensive ring is at Baird's, and makes a plan to retrieve it and other belongings on February 19, 2024
Lamarre-Condon enters the Paddington terrace on this date with a helmet and food delivery driver attire, when Baird and Davies are allegedly murdered
What the accused said on Tuesday
Missed out on our court coverage yesterday?
Sydney reporter Phoebe Pin recapped what Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC asked Lamarre-Condon while in the witness box.
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