On Wednesday, Beau Lamarre-Condon told the court he did not invent email addresses for Jesse Baird or for a man Baird was dating.
Lamarre-Condon was cross-examined by Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC about Grindr accounts.
He previously told the court that he decided to go on Grindr and enter the email address of Baird’s new date to see if he had an active account.
When Mr Hatfield asked why he would do that, Lamarre-Condon said: ‘Because if he had a Grindr account, it would mean [he and Baird] were not exclusive.’
On Wednesday, Lamarre-Condon told the court he did not invent an email address for Baird’s new date, but said he found the email address on social media.
Mr Hatfield asked: ‘If it was one you’d make up, you’d recall?’
Lamarre-Condon replied: ‘I don’t recall making one up.’
Mr Hatfield asked: ‘What about Mr Baird, did you make any fake email addresses or Grindr accounts for him?’
Lamarre-Condon replied: ‘I didn’t.’
The Crown alleges Lamarre-Condon created a fake dating profile for Baird.
The court also heard that Lamarre-Condon texted his best friend Jodie Parker on the day he allegedly broke into Baird’s house, saying: ‘I just need mamma Jodie’s words of wisdom.’
Lamarre-Condon told the court he often called Ms Parker for her guidance because she was ‘spiritual and Christian, and would give me advice about things in general’.
At about 7.30pm on August 17, 2023 – the night of the alleged break-in – the court heard Lamarre-Condon asked Ms Parker for a FaceTime call.
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC asked Lamarre-Condon whether he wanted to talk to Ms Parker about Jesse Baird.
Lamarre-Condon said he couldn’t recall because the conversation happened three years ago.
The following day, on August 18, he sent Ms Parker a screenshot of a text conversation (pictured) he had with Baird two days earlier, on August 16 – the day before the alleged break-in.
In that conversation, Lamarre-Condon had said to Baird: ‘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 replied at 1.49pm the following day, saying: ‘It was good to see you too. Glad you had fun in Euro.’
He included a plane emoji and a smiley face.
Lamarre-Condon had sent the conversation to another friend, who described the exchange as ‘savage’.
The friend thought Baird’s messages meant that he wasn’t interested in seeing Lamarre-Condon.
The friend said: ‘OMG. I’m dying. That’s so savage. No, it’s defs savage. If he was keen, he would have jumped on the bandwagon.’
Mr Hatfield previously suggested to Lamarre-Condon that he decided to ‘enter Baird’s property’ after receiving the ‘savage rejection’.
Lamarre-Condon denied that Baird had rejected him, and denied that the message was the reason he allegedly broke into Baird’s home.
In court on Wednesday, the court heard Lamarre-Condon sent the same exchange with Baird to Ms Parker on August 18 – the day after the alleged break-in.
Mr Hatfield put to Lamarre-Condon that he sent the exchange with Baird to Ms Parker because he also thought it was a ‘savage rejection’.
Lamarre-Condon said he never saw the message as ‘savage’, and that it was not a rejection.
He insisted that Baird invited him to stay over on the night of the alleged break-in.
The court was then adjourned early due to an unforseen legal argument.
