Last week, Beau Lamarre-Condon was cross-examined and maintained he did not go to Jesse Baird’s house with the intention of killing him.

‘My only intention when I intentionally fired the first shot was for him to drop a knife with his right arm, so that he could not stab me in the throat and kill me,’ he told the court.

‘Did you intend to kill him when you fired that shot?’ Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC asked.

‘No, and that’s exactly why I aimed for his right shoulder and not his centre body mass, because we are trained to shoot with the centre body mass to kill a person,’ he responded.

‘I did not want to kill Jesse, and that was a very, very clear thought that I remember to this day.

‘Shoot him in the shoulder so you don’t kill him. So he drops the knife.’

Lamarre-Condon maintained Baird slashed him with a knife during a struggle.

‘It did cut my body slightly. It was just a slash wound, slash wounds don’t scar,’ he said.

‘Did you point that to the police when they undertook the forensic procedure following your arrest?’ Mr Hatfield asked.

‘I maintained my legal right to silence,’ Lamarre-Condon replied.

Lamarre-Condon said he had hoped the first shot would have stopped Baird’s supposed attack on him.

He denied shooting Baird in the back.

‘I did not shoot Jesse Baird in the back. That is not accurate. That’s not the truth,’ he said.

Mr Hatfield asked: ‘You didn’t shoot him in the mouth or in the face?’

Lamarre-Condon replied: ‘I didn’t shoot him there, and I was completely unaware that a bullet had hit there first and then hit him in the right trap area. It happened so quick, there was lots of movement.

Mr Hatfield suggested to Lamarre-Condon that shooting Baird ‘wasn’t necessary’.

He replied: ‘I stand by the first shot.

‘I’ve had lots and lots of time to reflect on this – the first shot was intentional, the second shot was not.’

He said Baird ‘did nothing to me to deserve being killed. Nothing at all.’

‘Jesse did not deserve anything like that to happen to him.’