Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly asked a former celebrity-chaser friend to dispose of a phone the day after Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were allegedly killed.
Stacey Parker, who lives in Western Australia, told the court she first met Lamarre-Condon in Sydney in 2010 while they were both trying to take photographs with singer Pitbull.
The pair remained in contact and met whenever Parker travelled to Sydney to pursue celebrity photographs, which happened roughly twice a year.
When asked whether they had been close friends, Parker replied: “Close-ish, I thought we were.”
Parker said she had previously discussed her concerns about the Covid vaccine with Lamarre-Condon. She knew he was a NSW Police officer and believed he held similar views on the issue.
On February 20, the day after the alleged killings, Lamarre-Condon called Parker and asked whether she was available to speak by phone.
During the conversation, he asked her whether she could “do him a favour”.
“He told me that he’d stolen some police files from the Commissioner and he wanted me to get rid of the phone,” she told the court.
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Parker said she agreed, telling Lamarre-Condon she lived about 1.5 hours from Perth. According to her evidence, he instructed her to travel 30km from her home, switch the phone on and off, and then throw it into the water.
Lamarre-Condon called again two days later. Parker told the court he said two detectives had visited his mother’s house while looking for him.
“He said he was going to be set up for two guys that had gone missing and then he went on to ask me what I had to do with the phone, and I told him what I was going to do with the phone so he could hear it,” she said.
Parker said Lamarre-Condon maintained that police were trying to frame him. She described his tone during the conversation as “normal”.
Several days later, Parker was at her sister’s home when they saw news reports about Baird, Davies and Lamarre-Condon.
The reports included details that Baird’s friends had continued receiving text messages from his phone after his death, Parker told the court.
“I became very concerned and went to the police,” she said.
Parker said she never received a package from Lamarre-Condon.
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