On Tuesday, Beau Lamarre-Condon told the court he had worked as an entertainment reporter, secured invitations to red-carpet events including the Golden Globes and gained access to Kourtney Kardashian’s “inner circle”.
Lamarre-Condon said he had no interest in Jesse Baird’s career as a television reporter with Channel Ten, telling the court: “Jesse could have been a garbage cleaner, I liked Jesse for who he was.”
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield asked: “Didn’t you say yesterday that you were an entertainment reporter?”
Lamarre-Condon replied: “As a teenager, I used to interview people on red carpets and obtain media accreditation.
“You don’t just waltz into the Golden Globes; you are invited.”
Mr Hatfield then questioned him about an incident in 2010, when Lamarre-Condon waited outside the Sunrise television studios for rapper 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 said: “It wasn’t Kim, it was Kourtney, and that was arranged through her team.
“I’m [photographed] in their inner circle, with all their bodyguards around us. You can’t simply walk up to these people.”
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]?”
The prosecutor referred to a series of messages Lamarre-Condon sent friends after becoming uncertain about Baird’s replies.
Mr Hatfield asked whether Baird had been “fobbing you off” at certain points and whether that had worried him.
Lamarre-Condon denied that Baird was “fobbing me off”, but acknowledged: “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 receive messages from his mum and he was slow to respond. 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.”
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 had entered the email address of a man Baird was seeing into the Grindr app 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 see whether it was already registered.
Mr Hatfield asked: “You were trying to create a Grindr account in his name?”
Lamarre-Condon replied: “Not to impersonate him, but I did use his email address.”
He also said he was permitted to enter venues while on duty, carrying his gun, to greet 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, not to stalk Baird.
He also said he went inside to see friends from the “gay community”, although he could identify only one person who was at the pub.
Mr Hatfield asked: “So you can enter licensed premises with your gun simply to say hello to a friend because you want to?”
Lamarre-Condon replied: “I was a senior constable at the time and I could decide to enter a venue if it was within my area.
“It’s not as though I was getting a beer and sitting down. I wasn’t 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, but again emphasised that he had been a senior constable.
