Beau Lamarre-Condon trial: Extraordinary moment police find cleaners at Jesse Baird’s house two days after it was the scene of an alleged double murder

Police footage shows the moment a cop asked a cleaner at Jesse Baird’s house: ‘Is there any blood here?’

The cleaner, whose first langauge was not English, replied: ‘We clean’.

Officers then told the two cleaners to stop doing their jobs and step outside.

The terrace was then declared a crime scene.

Police body cameras show cleaners at Jesse Baird’s house just two days after it was the scene of an alleged double murder.

Detective Senior Constable Alistair Wright told the court he went to Baird’s home in Paddington on February 21, 2024.

By that stage, Baird and Luke Davies had been dead for two days, but no one knew that at the time.

Their bodies hadn’t been found, and Lamarre-Condon hadn’t been arrested, but police were investigating their disappearances.

Body-worn footage showed Mr Wright and a colleague knocking on Baird’s door at about 1.15pm that afternoon, saying: ‘Hello, it’s just the police.’

Eventually, a female cleaner answered the door and said the tenants weren’t home.

The officer asked: ‘You’re the cleaner?’

She replied: ‘Yeah.’

The officer asked: ‘Is anyone else home … is it all right if we come in and we have a chat to you?’

She replied: ‘It’s OK.’

The cleaner told police that she was hired to clean the house because Baird was supposed to have moved out that day.

Police then declared the home a crime scene.

In the skip bin where Jesse Baird and Luke Davies’ clothes and credit cards were found, investigators also uncovered accessories and toiletries, a damaged iPhone, and an Apple monitor.

A groundskeeper found the items, along with bloodied bedsheets and clothes, in the bin behind a club in Cronulla, in Sydney’s south.

The groundskeeper, Craig Scott, said in his statement that the bin was filled with grass trimmings when he left work in the afternoon of February 20, 2024 – the day after Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were allegedly killed.

When he got to work the following day, he said it looked as though someone else had put rubbish in the bin.

They then found Baird and Davies’ possessions, including credit cards and a Qantas card, and alerted police.

Senior Sergeant Bronwyn Lansley told the court on Tuesday afternoon that she attended the skip bin with colleagues and removed the contents.

Photos tendered to the court showed men’s shoes, black garbage bags, and a can of the energy drink V.

She will continue her evidence at 10am on Wednesday.

Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly tried to cover up bullet remnants on Jesse Baird’s bedroom door with paint, putty, and $5 jumbo hooks from Kmart.

Senior Sergeant Bronwyn Lansley told the court that she saw new photos of Baird’s door in July this year, three years after the alleged murders, and thought it looked as though it had changed.

Baird had white plastic hooks on his bedroom door, but they now appeared to be in different positions.

Ms Lansley told the court she went back to the Paddington house with colleagues and examined the hooks and other minor defects, including raised and depressed portions of the door.

She removed some of the paint and putty from one of the defects and found markings consistent with close-range gunfire, including a large circular hole.

Paint and putty were found to be concealing another defect on the door – when removed, it also revealed a circular hole.

She used luminol on that defect to check for biological matter, and it glowed blue.

Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC told the court Lamarre-Condon went to Kmart on February 20, 2024 – the day after the alleged murders – and bought two 3M jumbo hooks.

A police officer has told the court that Jesse Baird’s body was likely dragged from the kitchen, through the lounge room and up the hall to the bedroom after he was shot twice in the head.

Senior Sergeant Bronwyn Lansley continued her evidence after lunch on Tuesday, telling the court where investigators found blood inside the Paddington terrace.

She told the court Baird’s blood had seeped through the floorboards and into the cavity under the house.

Investigators also found remnants of blood on the rug in the living room and on the rug, in the hallway, and in the front bedroom – which was Baird’s bedroom, the court heard.

Ms Lansley also said Davies’ blood was predominantly found inside Baird’s bedroom, which indicates Baird and Davies were in there together at some stage after they died.

Photos of the crime scene showed significant amounts of luminol in the kitchen, Baird’s bedroom, and through the living room.

Luminol is a chemical liquid that investigators use at crime scenes to screen for blood not visible to the naked eye. It can also detect cleaning products.

Luke Davies and Jesse Baird’s blood seeped through the floorboards to the walls and beams under the house, the court heard.

Photos of the crime scene were shown to the court while Senior Sergeant Bronwyn Lansley (pictured right, with investigator Sasha Pinazza) gave evidence.

The photos were taken from underneath the Paddington terrace.

They showed streams of blood dripping and pooling on the beams under the house and onto a tarp under the house.

Ms Lansley told the court the blood belonged to both alleged victims.

Forensic investigators found blood stains and spatters on Jesse Baird’s bed frame, furniture, bedroom walls, and floorboards, the court heard.

Senior Sergeant Bronwyn Lansley conducted the crime scene investigation at Baird’s Paddington terrace in February 2024.

She told the court that investigators used luminol to look for traces of biological material in the home.

Luminol is a chemical liquid that investigators use at crime scenes to screen for blood. It can detect blood and cleaning products that are not visible to the naked eye.

When luminol was sprayed onto the floorboards in the hallway of Baird’s home, large patches of the floor glowed bright blue, indicating materials were detected.

A number of photos with blood stains and luminol were shown to the court.

Ms Lansley told the court Baird and Davies’ blood were identified at the scene.

Jurors will be taken to the home in Paddington where Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were allegedly murdered.

Justice Natalie Adams told members of the jury they would attend the terrace, along with herself, prosecutors, and defence lawyers, to help them understand the forensic evidence.

The viewing will take place on October 14.

A groundskeeper found bloodied bedsheets and clothes in a skip bin, along with Luke Davies’ identification and Qantas card.

Part of Craig Scott’s statement was read before the jury on Tuesday morning. It included details about the moment he found blood and black garbage bags in a skip bin in Cronulla, southern Sydney.

Mr Scott said in his statement that the bin was filled with grass trimmings when he left work in the afternoon of February 20, 2024 – the day after Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were allegedly killed.

When he got to work the following day, he said it looked as though someone else had put rubbish in the bin. He then asked a colleague to have a look with him.

‘There were AFL footy shorts still in plastic packaging,’ he said.

‘I saw a bunch of white flags bunched together near the top and it had a lot of red.

(pictured below: Baird with Lamarre-Condon)

‘When we moved them to the side, we saw several bin bags … I opened one of the bags and removed a piece of brown clothing, I only took a little from the bag and it had red stains on it.’

Mr Scott said he left it in the bag because he thought it was covered in blood.

His colleague opened another bag and found a bed sheet with similar stains.

They also found a silver watch and a leather pouch with credit cards in the name of Luke Davies, along with a Qantas card. Davies was a Qantas flight attendant.

Both men ‘decided something suspicious had gone on’ and decided to take the watch and the leather pouch to the police station.

Detective Senior Constable Alistair Wright finished his evidence on Tuesday morning, telling the court about his conversation with Jesse Baird’s housemate.

Mr Wright told the court he was called to Baird’s home twice – the first time was in August 2023 after Lamarre-Condon allegedly broke into the Paddington sharehouse.

He was one of the officers who went to the house to investigate the alleged break-in.

Under cross-examination by Lamarre-Condon’s lawyer John Stratton SC, Mr Wright agreed that Baird’s housemates ‘weren’t getting along with him’.

The court heard one housemate, who can’t be named for legal reasons, told Mr Wright: ‘Me and my roommate weren’t really getting along with [Baird], so we asked him to leave about a month ago.’

Baird found alternative accommodation in Sydney and planned to move out by February 20, 2024.

Lamarre-Condon allegedly killed him on February 19.

A number of witnesses are expected to give evidence.