Beau Lamarre-Condon told the court on Wednesday that he had not fabricated email addresses for Jesse Baird or for the man Baird was seeing.
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC questioned Lamarre-Condon about Grindr accounts during cross-examination.
Lamarre-Condon had previously said he searched Grindr using the email address of Baird’s new partner to determine whether the man had an active profile.
When asked why, he replied: “Because if he had a Grindr account, it would mean [he and Baird] were not exclusive.”
On Wednesday, Lamarre-Condon said he had not made up the email address. Instead, he claimed he had located it through social media.
Mr Hatfield asked whether he would remember creating an address if it had been invented by him.
“I don’t recall making one up,” Lamarre-Condon replied.
The prosecutor then asked whether he had created fake email addresses or Grindr profiles for Mr Baird.
“I didn’t,” Lamarre-Condon said.
The Crown alleges Lamarre-Condon set up a false dating profile in Baird’s name.
The court also heard that, on the day he allegedly entered Baird’s home, Lamarre-Condon messaged his close friend Jodie Parker: “I just need mamma Jodie’s words of wisdom.”
He said he regularly sought Ms Parker’s advice because she was “spiritual and Christian” and offered guidance on a range of personal matters.
At around 7.30pm on August 17, 2023—the night of the alleged break-in—Lamarre-Condon asked Ms Parker to speak with him on FaceTime.
Mr Hatfield asked whether Lamarre-Condon had wanted to discuss Jesse Baird with her.
Lamarre-Condon said he could not remember, explaining that the conversation had taken place three years earlier.
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The next day, August 18, he sent Ms Parker a screenshot of a conversation with Baird from August 16, one day before the alleged break-in.
In those messages, 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 responded at 1.49pm the following day: “It was good to see you too. Glad you had fun in Euro.”
His reply also included a plane emoji and a smiling face.
Lamarre-Condon had also shared the exchange with another friend, who described Baird’s response as “savage”.
That friend interpreted Baird’s messages as a sign that he did not want to meet Lamarre-Condon.
“OMG. I’m dying. That’s so savage. No, it’s defs savage. If he was keen, he would have jumped on the bandwagon,” the friend said.
Mr Hatfield had previously suggested that Lamarre-Condon decided to “enter Baird’s property” after receiving what he characterised as a “savage rejection”.
Lamarre-Condon rejected that interpretation, denying Baird had turned him down and insisting the message was not why he allegedly entered the home.
On Wednesday, the court heard that Lamarre-Condon sent the same exchange to Ms Parker on August 18, the day after the alleged break-in.
Mr Hatfield suggested he forwarded the messages because he, too, viewed them as a “savage rejection”.
Lamarre-Condon disagreed, saying he had never considered the exchange savage and did not regard it as a rejection.
He maintained that Baird had invited him to stay at his home on the night of the alleged break-in.
The hearing was adjourned earlier than scheduled because of an unforeseen legal argument.
