Friend testifies that former officer cleaned blood from van at her home after murders

A witness identified only as Fiona Rosso testified at the New South Wales Supreme Court that former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon showed up at her house unannounced days after the disappearance of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. She said she was drinking champagne and unpacking groceries when he entered, began crying and told her he was "saying goodbye" and had "done something bad."

"He started crying and he said words like, ‘I’m saying goodbye, I’ve come to say goodbye’," Rosso told the jury.

According to Rosso, Lamarre-Condon asked her to look up the definition of schizophrenia and claimed to have had an out-of-body experience that left him unable to control his actions. She said she later sat on the footpath, shocked, while he scrubbed blood from the back of his van.

"He said there was like a bit of blood that he had to scrub off and he couldn’t get it off," she said.

Rosso recounted that Lamarre-Condon described a two-and-a-half hour drive with another female friend to dispose of the bodies in a dam, and mentioned an earlier incident in which he showed Baird his police firearm, which accidentally discharged.

The Crown alleges Lamarre-Condon killed Baird execution-style and then shot Davies to eliminate a witness. The defendant maintains he acted in self-defence after entering the victims’ terrace to retrieve his belongings. Prosecutors have rejected his offer to plead guilty to manslaughter.

Rosso also said Lamarre-Condon’s mother texted him the code word “hot chocolate,” indicating police had visited her home after the alleged murders. Earlier, a youth command officer had visited Rosso’s house for an acting class, during which Lamarre-Condon allegedly asked her to help bury a body, a request she did not interpret literally.

The trial, presided over by Justice Natalie Adams, continues.