The court was shown Jesse Baird’s phone records last week. Baird is pictured with Luke Davies.
The records tracked the mobile towers Baird’s phone connected to in the hours before and after he was allegedly killed by Beau Lamarre-Condon on February 19, 2024.
Police technical expert Jonas O’Brien told the court that Baird’s phone connected to several towers while he slept on the night of February 18.
The following morning, around the time Baird is believed to have died, a friend sent him text messages and made calls. None were answered.
Mr O’Brien said the phone appeared to have been switched off shortly afterward.
Messages continued to be sent to the device, but they were not delivered while it was offline. One of those messages came from insurer Medibank.
The expert said the phone appeared to be turned on and connected to a Wi-Fi network at about 4.45pm, allowing the pending messages to come through.
Messages from Auto General and Rafflesaint were received until approximately 6pm, when the phone appeared to be switched off once more.
Further messages from Blue Glue, Rafflesaint and Vodafone were not delivered because the device was no longer connected.
On February 20, the phone briefly came back online and connected to a tower in Paddington, where Baird lived. It was then turned off again until about 11pm.
Baird’s phone appeared to remain permanently switched off from February 21.
Luke Davies sent his final text message to Aussie Enterprise and Industry at about 9.12am on the day of his death.
The court heard evidence from Davies’ phone records on Friday afternoon.
Around 50 minutes later, at 9.51am, Davies called NSW Police.
At the time, Lamarre-Condon had allegedly entered Baird’s Paddington home, where Davies was staying, and opened fire.
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NSW Police attempted to return the call, but their calls went straight to voicemail.
Davies received calls later that afternoon, including one from a person in Bondi, but his phone appeared to have been turned off.
The following day, February 20, Davies’ mother, Sandra, made several attempts to contact him.
She was unable to reach him because the phone remained switched off.
The court also heard from a former police officer and friend of Lamarre-Condon, who said she feared he might “kill me too” after arriving at her home to clean blood from a van.
The friend, known as Fiona Rosso for court reporting purposes, told the NSW Supreme Court last week that police officer Lamarre-Condon appeared at her house on February 22, 2024 – three days after he allegedly killed two people.
She alleged that he said: ‘I’ve done something bad, I don’t want to tell you, I don’t want to incriminate you.’
Lamarre-Condon asked her to search Jesse Baird’s name online.
She saw a number of articles about the disappearance of Baird, a television presenter, and his new Qantas flight attendant partner, Luke Davies.
Ms Rosso told the court that she followed Lamarre-Condon outside to a white van parked near her house. She said he started scrubbing blood from the interior.
She started looking up Baird’s name again and saw that a police officer was a suspect.
‘When reading the articles, I saw [the number for] Crime Stoppers and I just wanted to scream, “He’s here! He’s here!”‘ she told the court.
Ms Rosso sobbed as she told the court that she didn’t know if she was ‘part of the plan where he could now kill me too’.
‘I didn’t want to provoke Beau to hurt me.’
Justice Natalie Adams later told the jury that Ms Rosso feared for her life, but there was no evidence that Lamarre-Condon was ever going to harm her.