00:01Bo Lamar Condon has been in the witness box of his own double murder trial in the fourth day now.
00:07He chose to give evidence in his own defence case.
00:10He had his opportunity to put forward his version of events.
00:13What happened on that day in February 2024 when the Crown alleges he went into Jesse Baird's Paddington Share home,
00:20shot him dead and then shot his new partner Luke Davies dead inside with his police service pistol.
00:26He had his version of events that he put forward to the jury that it was all an act of
00:30self-defence.
00:31Now he's being cross-examined by the Crown prosecutor who had been looking into some of the earlier relationship between
00:39himself and Mr Baird
00:41in what the Crown alleges or says was just a casual partnership between the two.
00:46Now the Crown put to Bo Lamar Condon that he was obsessed with Mr Baird from the start,
00:52referring to their relationship in early 2023 when he says they'd only been seeing each other for several weeks
01:00when we saw messages between Mr Lamar Condon and his friend where he was talking about how he loved him
01:05and then he was also referring to him as the Channel 10 reporter guy.
01:10Now Mr Lamar Condon says that he was not obsessed with him.
01:14He says that he sometimes referred to Mr Baird as the Channel 10 reporter guy,
01:19but he says that Jesse Baird could have been a garbage cleaner and that he still would have liked him
01:24and he says he wasn't really interested in the fact that he was a Channel 10 reporter.
01:29And the Crown then took him to his history as a celebrity chaser.
01:33We've seen images of him with several celebrities over the years.
01:37He says that was part of his past life.
01:39He says that it was something he was doing during his teenage years.
01:42But there was a photo that he did take, a selfie with Kourtney Kardashian in 2024,
01:47which is the same year of the alleged murders.
01:50He says that was pre-arranged with the team, Kourtney Kardashian's team,
01:53that he would attend there and take that photo to help promote her tour in Sydney at the time.
01:59And now in the quote of when he was asked whether or not he was obsessed from the start with
02:03Jesse Baird,
02:03he said,
02:04Smitten, yes. Obsessed, no.
02:06OK. Mr Lamar Condon was also questioned about breaching Mr Baird's privacy on one occasion.
02:13What did he have to say about that?
02:14Yeah, the Crown put to him that he was only with Mr Baird for around six weeks
02:19and this was either the first or the second day that the pair had had together in 2023
02:25when they both went to a farm and spent the night at accommodation there.
02:30During that stay, the Crown put to Bo Lamar Condon that he accessed Jesse Baird's phone
02:36without his permission and Mr Lamar Condon admitted he did do that when Jesse Baird was in the shower.
02:43He says he knew the password for Mr Baird's phone because Mr Baird had offered that to him
02:47so he could change the songs when they were driving to that location.
02:50He says during that he admitted that he did breach the privacy of Mr Baird
02:56by going through his Instagram account and unfollowing at least two to three people
03:00who the Crown alleges he saw as romantic rivals.
03:03Now the Crown put to him that in fact he had actually deleted or unfollowed 20 profiles
03:09which was the evidence given by one of these supposed romantic rivals
03:13who said he had that conversation with Jesse Baird at the time.
03:15He denied that.
03:17Now he was also questioned about a second time that he accessed Jesse Baird's phone
03:22when the pair were at his Paddington property on a later date, only a few weeks after this.
03:26He said that he accessed that phone after the pair went on a date together to an escape room.
03:31He said Jesse Baird gave him his phone so he could edit the date of that escape room together
03:36so he could put that together while he went in the shower again.
03:39Now he took photos of some of the messages between Mr Baird and another man
03:43and he then sent them to some of his friends.
03:46Now when he was shown those photos and the timestamps of those photos,
03:50it showed that he'd actually taken the photos on that phone
03:53before the pair had even gone on that date that night.
03:55He then changed his evidence saying that he made a mistake
03:58and that he must have been given the phone by Jesse Baird to actually book the escape room date.
04:02But he denied the accusation by the Crown that he was blatantly lying to them
04:07in his evidence saying that this all took place after the date
04:10and blatantly lying about having permission to use his phone as well.
04:14And just before we went on the lunch break,
04:16he was questioned whether or not he was stalking Jesse Baird
04:19in the months leading up to the alleged murders.
04:21He denied that, but he did accept that on one occasion
04:25he did try to log in to a Grindr account
04:28using one of those romantic rivals' emails
04:30to see whether or not Mr Baird and that person were exclusive
04:34or whether this romantic rival in fact had a Grindr account at the same time.
04:38But he says that was not stalking.
05:41You
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