Beau Lamarre-Condon’s childhood friend, Shae Davison, continued her evidence on Friday morning.
She told the court that Lamarre-Condon ‘guilt-tripped’ her into using her Instagram account to send a 1600-word message to Jesse Baird in November 2023.
The court heard Lamarre-Condon’s relationship with Baird had completely broken down because Baird had allegedly caught him going through his phone and blocking people.
Lamarre-Condon also started posting Instagram stories which falsely implied he and Baird were still in a relationship, including a photo of flowers that suggested Baird had sent them to Lamarre-Condon.
The stories were only shared with people Lamarre-Condon deemed ‘close friends’ on Instagram. Baird was not in that group and didn’t have access to the posts, but was told about them by others.
When Baird caught and confronted him, Lamarre-Condon asked Ms Davison’s advice.
Lamarre-Condon allegedly told her it was all true and that he had blocked Baird’s contacts, deleted a text from his phone, and staged the flowers photo.
She told the court he allegedly planned to deny it to Baird, rather than telling him the truth.
He allegedly fabricated a handwritten note, telling Baird his step-father had actually sent the flowers to his mother and the post had nothing to do with him.
Ms Davison advised Lamarre-Condon to be honest with Baird and she believed he was taking her advice, the court heard.
Lamarre-Condon eventually came clean to Baird, who didn’t want to see him again.
Lamarre-Condon then texted Davison, saying: ‘I made my bed and now I need to f***ing lie in the damn thing. At least I was honest and could own my s**t.
‘Next time, I just have to be honest the first time.’
On November 22, Lamarre-Condon called Ms Davison wanting to stay at her house that night because he ‘didn’t want to be alone’, the court heard.
She said he appeared very upset over his relationship breakdown with Baird and she agreed.
Ms Davison told the court Lamarre-Condon arrived with an overnight bag and immediately started asking if he could message Baird from her Instagram account.
‘He wanted the message to come from me as one last try to win Jesse back,’ she told the court.
She felt uncomfortable about it because he didn’t want her to read the message before it was sent, citing ‘medical things he didn’t want me to know’.
‘He wore me down,’ she told the court.
‘He said I needed to send it before my husband got home, I felt a timely pressure, it felt like guilt-tripping and using our friendship to get what he wanted out of that.
She eventually agreed on the condition that he read her the message aloud, excluding the medical details.
Ms Davison said he did read it aloud and had written it as though it came from her. She asked him to edit and remove parts that she felt uncomfortable with.
She told the court he appeared to be making the changes that she requested, but later found out that he didn’t do what she asked.
The text said Lamarre-Condon had been diagnosed with a cancerous growth in his shoulder which may require amputation.
It said he would be in hospital on December 4.
The message read: ‘About a month ago, Beau asked me to go with him to Westmead Hospital where he was told he had cancer in his shoulder.
‘Worst case is he has to get his arm amputated. He was then prescribed medications to prepare for chemotherapy and radiation before his cancer removal surgery.’
The message said the medications were ‘among the strongest you can be prescribed which can impact how a person reacts’.
Lamarre-Condon allegedly wrote, while pretending to be the friend: ‘[Beau] always spoke so highly of you, Jesse and I know there is deep love there …
‘It definitely won’t happen overnight but can 100 per cent come back.’
She said Lamarre-Condon only stayed at her house for about an hour, which surprised her because he had an overnight bag and had said he didn’t want to be alone.
Weeks later, Ms Davison told Lamarre-Condon that she had read the messages after they were sent. She said he appeared ‘annoyed’.
The court heard Lamarre-Condon did go to hospital on December 4. She initially believed it was related to cancer.
