Beau Lamarre-Condon’s close friend, Jodie Parker, once joined him on luxury trips to Bali and offered spiritual guidance. Now, she has travelled to Sydney to stand by him during his double-murder trial.
Lamarre-Condon referred to Ms Parker several times in the NSW Supreme Court this week, describing her as “my best friend” and telling the Crown she had come from the Gold Coast to attend the proceedings.
At one point, he said Ms Parker could testify about claims that he had experienced suicidal thoughts, accusing Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC of declining to call her as a witness.
Mr Hatfield responded: “Mr Lamarre, you can call whatever witnesses you like in this case. You know that, don’t you?”
While being questioned about his alleged “obsession” with former boyfriend Jesse Baird, Lamarre-Condon said: “No, Mr Crown, as my best friend Jodie knows…”
Mr Hatfield cut him off, saying: “I’m not asking you what Jodie knows.”
Ms Parker is a Queensland-based spiritual healer with a tattoo on her neck and has attended court to support Lamarre-Condon each day of the trial.
Speaking to the Daily Mail outside court, Ms Parker said she was unsure how long she would remain in Sydney but was pleased to be there for Lamarre-Condon during the proceedings.
Beau Lamarre-Condon’s “best friend” Jodie Parker is pictured arriving at the NSW Supreme Court
Accused killer Beau Lamarre-Condon’s friend “Mamma Jodie” previously joined him on luxury Bali holidays and offered spiritual advice
Lamarre-Condon repeatedly pointed to Jodie Parker in the NSW Supreme Court this week, calling her “my best friend”
Earlier this week, Lamarre-Condon told the court that he contacted Ms Parker for “words of wisdom” after allegedly entering Jesse Baird’s Paddington terrace on August 17, 2023.
Lamarre-Condon denies breaking in, saying he entered with a key because Baird had invited him to stay the night.
He said he went into the house quietly because he wanted to check Baird’s phone in private and find out whether he was seeing other men. He claimed he planned to look through the phone before “jumping into bed with Jesse”.
Lamarre-Condon said he messaged Ms Parker on August 17, the date of the alleged break-in, because he regularly turned to her for advice.
He described her as “spiritual and Christian” and said she advised him on a range of personal matters.
His message read: “Hey I just need your advice if you have a spare five mins.
“I just need mamma Jodie’s words of wisdom.”
Mr Hatfield asked whether Lamarre-Condon had wanted to discuss his alleged “obsession” with Baird with Ms Parker.
Beau Lamarre-Condon told the Crown that his “best friend” Jodie Parker had travelled from the Gold Coast to Sydney for the trial
Pictured: A screenshot of messages exchanged by Beau Lamarre-Condon and Jesse Baird. A friend described the exchange as “savage”, believing Baird was not interested in dating Lamarre-Condon
Lamarre-Condon said he could not remember because the conversation had taken place three years earlier.
The pair did not speak by phone, and Lamarre-Condon agreed they would talk at another time.
The next day, August 18, he sent Ms Parker a screenshot of a text exchange with Baird from August 16, the day before the alleged break-in.
In the exchange, Lamarre-Condon wrote: “Hey, sorry I had to run yesterday. I was running a tad late or I would have loved to chat for longer.
“Let’s do a walk and lunch catch-up after next weekend… then we can have a proper catch-up. Good seeing you though.”
Baird replied at 1.49pm the following day: “It was good to see you too. Glad you had fun in Euro.”
His message also contained a plane emoji and a smiling face.
Lamarre-Condon shared the exchange with another friend, who described the messages as “savage”.
Pictured: Beau Lamarre-Condon during his time as a senior constable
That friend interpreted Baird’s messages as a sign that he was no longer romantically interested in Lamarre-Condon.
The friend said: “OMG. I’m dying. That’s so savage. No, it’s defs savage. If he was keen, he would have jumped on the bandwagon.”
Mr Hatfield previously put to Lamarre-Condon that he decided to “enter Baird’s property” after receiving the “savage rejection”.
Lamarre-Condon rejected that suggestion, saying Baird had not turned him down and that the message was not why he allegedly entered the home.
The court heard this week that Lamarre-Condon sent Ms Parker the same exchange on August 18, one day after the alleged break-in.
Mr Hatfield suggested that Lamarre-Condon shared the messages because he, too, viewed them as a “savage rejection”.
Lamarre-Condon denied that interpretation, saying he had never considered the exchange “savage” and did not believe it amounted to a rejection.
He maintained that Baird had invited him to stay at the property on the night in question.
The former police officer has pleaded not guilty to a charge of break and enter relating to the alleged incident.
He has also pleaded not guilty to two domestic violence-related murder charges arising from the alleged shootings of Baird and his new boyfriend, Luke Davies, at the Paddington rental property on February 19, 2024.