On Thursday, Beau Lamarre-Condon was grilled over a 1600-word message he sent to Jesse Baird from a female friend’s Instagram account, claiming he had cancer and faced arm amputation.

The message was made to look as though it was from Lamarre-Condon’s friend, the court heard.

Baird and Lamarre-Condon were broken up at the time, with Baird blocking him on Instagram and requesting they never speak again.

The court previously heard there was no evidence to suggest Lamarre-Condon had cancer.

He was asked whether any aspect of the 1600-word message with the cancer claims was true.

Lamarre-Condon said: ‘There are certain aspects of this message that are not true … but there are aspects to it that are true.’

Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC said: ‘Why don’t you point out the parts of the message that are true, that might be shorter.’

Lamarre-Condon said: ‘I went to see a naturopathic doctor in November or October…’

Mr Hatfield interrupted: ‘Where is that in the message? You’re pointing to the parts of the message that are true?’

Lamarre-Condon went quiet and read the message. He said: ‘In relation to a tumour on my left shoulder and it was growing, it was a sporadic form of cancer, that’s what I was told.’

He said that he went to the naturopath because he wanted a medication with ‘traces of magic mushroom’ for PTSD treatment, but that he didn’t provide his Medicare card at the time.

‘I then asked about a lump near my AC joint, I thought it was a cyst, but she believed it was a sporadic form of cancer and told me exactly what it was,’ he claimed.

Lamarre-Condon said the naturopath explained that some people have their arms amputated, but not that he would necessarily have to have his arm cut off.

He told the court that he started treating the condition with natural plant extracts that he found online.

Lamarre-Condon was also asked about why he asked his friend to rent a van for him, but under her name.

The former police officer is accused of renting a van to transport the bodies of Baird and Davies to Bungonia.

In court, he said that he needed a van because he wanted to buy furniture from a floor sale at Nick Scali in Newcastle.

Lamarre-Condon said he needed furniture because he was about to move into a new property in Roseberry, but the sale never went through because there were defects in the building.

He also confirmed that he had looked at buying property in Bali, but he only looked online.

Lamarre-Condon also told the court that the profits from his swimwear line, Ivy Swim, went into Bitcoin.

He said most of the orders were sent to influencers, but he didn’t know how many orders he’d received – it was more than 10 orders, but couldn’t say whether it was more than 100.

The former cop agreed there was less than $1000 in the Ivy Swimwear bank account, but insisted he invested the rest of the money into Bitcoin.

Mr Hatfield SC asked where the products were manufactured.

Lamarre-Condon said the products were manufactured in Bali.

He also told the court that he was hurt in November 2023 because he believed Baird was lying about the exclusivity of his relationships with other men.

The court heard Lamarre-Condon only wanted to be in exclusive relationships.