number of witnesses gave evidence on Wednesday, including Jesse Baird’s ex-partners and Lamarre-Condon’s former colleagues.

Corey-Dean Thorpe (pictured below) was in a relationship with Baird for about five years before Baird moved from Brisbane to Sydney for a job with Channel Ten.

Despite their breakup, they spoke almost every day.

Mr Thorpe told the court there was one conversation on November 16, 2023 – three months before the alleged murders – that Baird appeared ‘petrified’ of Lamarre-Condon.

During their phone conversation, Mr Thorpe said: ‘I’d never heard him so scared in his voice before and that’s when he started sending me messages.

Referring to Lamarre-Condon’s status as a senior constable with NSW Police, Mr Thorpe said: ‘ [Baird] was just repeating, “He has a gun”.

Mr Thorpe recalled Baird telling him about Lamarre-Condon allegedly going through his phone and deleting messages and ‘unfollowing gay men’ on Instagram.

He also recalled Baird saying he caught Lamarre-Condon allegedly going through his phone in the middle of the night, and a separate incident, where he woke up one night to find a man in his bedroom.

Mr Thorpe alleged that Baird was allegedly ‘extremely scared’ to report Lamarre-Condon to the police because he was a member of NSW Police and he had a gun.

Two Channel Ten employees were emotional while giving evidence on Wednesday afternoon.

Briony Blackstone was a freelance producer on Studio 10 with Baird in 2023.

She told the court: ‘I adored Jesse.’

Ms Blackstone said Baird told her about Lamarre-Condon while they were working together in the network’s Pyrmont office, and that she was concerned.

She told the court that she had asked him if he was OK because ‘he was noticeably agitated in the office’.

‘That was unusual because he was really happy and diligent, and he was clearly upset and not himself.’

When Crown prosecutors asked whether Lamarre had allegedly ‘done something that really freaked him out’, Ms Blackstone said: ‘Yes.’

She allegedly recalled Baird saying: ‘I’ve been casually seeing a guy and his behaviour is a bit stalkerish … I probably like his dog better than him.’

Damon Wilson (pictured below) told the court that he went on one date with Lamarre-Condon in August 2023 and didn’t hear from him again until three months later, after Mr Wilson had started seeing Baird.

He said Lamarre-Condon then posted a video of himself playing on a bed with Baird, a video of them at a concert together, and photos that wrongly implied they were together.

The footage and photos were only sent to those who Lamarre-Condon added to his ‘close friends’ list on Instagram, which included Mr Wilson and not Baird.

On November 18, the court heard, Lamarre-Condon sent Mr Wilson a lengthy message accusing Baird of lying, manipulating, gaslighting and playing mind games with him throughout their time together.

The message read: ‘Hey Damon, I was debating sending this message or not but we obviously dated before but I would hate to see you hurt the way I have been, and multiple others. I have nothing against you.

‘When I first started see Jesse 11 months ago, I got multiple [direct messages] from other guys saying “good luck when he gaslights/plays you”.

Lamarre-Condon said he didn’t believe them, saying ‘Jesse led me on to believe it was going to be a relationship’, explainaing Baird had met his family and friends.

‘He then gaslit the whole situation because he’s very charming and he’s good at what he does … he then sent me this amazing message saying I was everything on paper he was looking for, but he wasn’t ready for a relationship.’

Lamarre-Condon told Mr Wilson that Baird had done the same thing to a host of other men and urged him to ‘be very careful’, saying: ‘It took me so long to recover from all the manipulation.’

Lamarre-Condon’s former police officer friend and colleague also told the court the accused allegedly told him about making a fake dating profile to check on Baird.

He also alleged that Lamarre-Condon took him on a drive through Baird’s neighbourhood to see if Baird’s new flame was there.

Our blog from yesterday is below.