Jurors in Beau Lamarre-Condon's double murder trial heard a 50-minute jailhouse recording in which he denied the killings to a friend.

A recording played to a jury is evidence. It is not a verdict. In it, he questions the memory of the friend prosecutors rely on. His own account is that a struggle led to an accidental shooting. The jury decides which version, if either, it believes.

The jury in the double murder trial of former New South Wales police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon heard a 50-minute recording on Monday of a conversation he had with a friend while in custody, the Daily Mail reported. Lamarre-Condon is on trial charged with murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in Sydney in February 2024, and with breaking into Baird's house, according to the Daily Mail.

The Daily Mail reported the phone call and the in-person meeting that followed took place on Dec. 14, 2024, at Silverwater Correctional Centre, ten months after the alleged murders. Before the meeting, Lamarre-Condon told the friend to "bring your big boy diapers," the Daily Mail reported. The friend, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court on Monday that he took the comment to mean Lamarre-Condon was going to make uncomfortable comments, according to the Daily Mail. By that stage the friend had given three statements to police, and the court heard Lamarre-Condon knew about them, the outlet reported.

In the recording, Lamarre-Condon repeatedly said he did not go to Baird's house on Feb. 19, 2024, intending to kill anyone, the Daily Mail reported. "I didn't even f***ing do it. Use your brain," he could be heard saying, according to the outlet. The Daily Mail reported he called the friend "dumb" and suggested the friend's memory was unreliable, while also saying, "I know you're not a liar." He said in the recording that he had used a key Baird had cut for him. The Daily Mail reported the court previously heard he allegedly took Baird's spare key and had his own copy cut without Baird's knowledge. He also said he initially pleaded guilty to manslaughter over Baird's death, which he described as taking accountability, and did not take responsibility for Davies' death, according to the Daily Mail.

The Daily Mail reported Lamarre-Condon's account is that he went to the house to collect his belongings while dressed as an Uber Eats driver, that Baird did not recognize him and attacked, and that his police-issued gun went off in a struggle, killing Baird, before Davies grabbed the gun and was accidentally shot. Prosecutors allege he went to the house intending to kill Baird and killed Davies because he could not leave a witness, the outlet reported. The friend previously told the court Lamarre-Condon confessed to him on Feb. 19, 2024, and alleged last week that he was asked to take the day off work to help clean the scene and dump the bodies, according to the Daily Mail. In the recording, Lamarre-Condon also told the friend that the hire car his mother had would be explained by her own car being serviced, and the Daily Mail reported the court has not heard evidence of that service so far.

The Daily Mail reported Lamarre-Condon also told the friend in the recording that he had been suicidal before the alleged killings. Murder is the charge against him. It is not a conviction, and the trial is continuing. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.