On Tuesday, Beau Lamarre-Condon told the court that he had worked as an entertainment reporter, attended the Golden Globes red carpet and been welcomed into Kourtney Kardashian’s “inner circle”.
Lamarre-Condon said he was not attracted to Jesse Baird because of his role as a television reporter at Channel Ten. “Jesse could have been a garbage cleaner, I liked Jesse for who he was,” he said.
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield asked: “Didn’t you say yesterday you were an entertainment reporter?”
Lamarre-Condon replied: “As a teenager, I used to interview people on red carpets and get media accreditation.
“You don’t just waltz into the Golden Globes, you get invited.”
Mr Hatfield then questioned him about an incident in 2010, when Lamarre-Condon waited outside the Sunrise television studios for Pitbull.
He answered: “Yes, in 2010 when I was 14.”
Mr Hatfield also asked about a later occasion when Lamarre-Condon was photographed with Kourtney Kardashian.
He asked: “What about Kim Kardashian?”
Lamarre-Condon replied: “It wasn’t Kim, it was Kourtney, and that was organised through her team.
“I’m [photographed] in their inner circle with all their bodyguards around us, you can’t just walk up to these people automatically.”
Lamarre-Condon also told the court that he and his friends used to joke about being “white girl crazy” when discussing their romantic relationships.
Mr Hatfield asked: “You were fretting over Jesse Baird in early January [2023]?”
He referred to a series of messages Lamarre-Condon had sent friends after becoming uncertain about Baird’s responses.
Mr Hatfield asked whether Baird had been “fobbing you off” at various points and whether that had caused Lamarre-Condon concern.
Lamarre-Condon denied that Baird was “fobbing me off”, but said: “I was a bit in my head at times.”
“If there was a slow response, I was like, ‘Oh, is this personal?’ but I came to realise Jesse was slow at responding.
“I saw Jesse get messages from his mum and he was slow, it’s best to get Jesse on the phone.”
Mr Hatfield asked: “You were insecure about the relationship and whether he even liked you?”
Lamarre-Condon replied: “I was very in my head about it, but that’s natural and normal.”
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Mr Hatfield then took him through a series of messages with a friend about Baird, in which Lamarre-Condon said his texts “sound crazy”.
Lamarre-Condon explained: “We always say we’re white girl crazy – it just means we need to get out of our heads and stop second-guessing.”
He later told the court that he entered the email address of a new man in Jesse Baird’s life into Grindr to check whether the man had an active account.
Lamarre-Condon denies stalking Baird and maintains that their first breakup, in April 2023, was amicable.
He said it was not unusual for him to view Baird’s Instagram stories after the breakup, using either his personal or business accounts.
“I may have been looking online … I definitely wasn’t stalking him, but I was looking online. That’s not stalking,” he said.
He was then questioned about a conversation with a female friend concerning a new man Baird was seeing.
Lamarre-Condon told the court that he and the friend went on Grindr and entered the man’s email address to check whether it was already registered.
Mr Hatfield asked: “You were trying to make an account in his name on Grindr?”
Lamarre-Condon replied: “Not to impersonate him, but I used his email address.”
He also said that, while on duty and carrying his gun, he was permitted to enter venues to say hello to friends.
Mr Hatfield questioned Lamarre-Condon about an occasion when he was accused of using his position as a police officer to obtain CCTV footage from a pub.
The footage showed Jesse Baird drinking with friends.
Lamarre-Condon told the court that he entered the pub to determine whether it had CCTV showing a fight nearby, rather than to stalk Baird.
He also said he went inside to see friends from the “gay community”, although he could identify only one person at the pub.
Mr Hatfield asked: “So you can go with your gun into a licensed premises to say hello to a friend because you want to?”
Lamarre-Condon replied: “I was a senior constable at the time and I can make the decision to go into a venue if it’s in my area.
“It’s not like I’m getting a beer and sitting down, I’m not driving to Mount Druitt to see friends, I was in the area.”
Mr Hatfield said: “You were 28 at the time?”
Lamarre-Condon confirmed he was 28, while again emphasising that he was a senior constable.