Crime & Justice

Officer accused of double murder expelled from Australian police force

Sydney, Australia, Mar 22 (EFE).- The police officer accused of the murder of former TV presenter Jesse Baird and his partner Luke Davies in Sydney last month has been expelled from the force.

Beau Lamarre-Condon, 28, was charged with two counts of murder after he allegedly used his police-issued firearm to kill the couple in Baird’s home in the Sydney suburb of Paddington on Feb. 19.

New South Wales Police confirmed Friday that Lamarre-Condon has been “removed” from the force.

“Under section 181D of the Police Act 1990, the Commissioner has the ability to remove officers if she has lost confidence in their suitability to continue as a police officer,” it said in a statement.

Police began investigating the disappearance of Baird, 26, and Davies, a 29-year-old Qantas flight attendant, on Feb. 21 after some of their bloodied belongings were found that day in a rubbish bin in the Cronulla neighborhood in southern Sydney.

As part of the investigations into the crime that has shocked Australia, authorities accused Lamarre-Condon, who is in custody and believed to have been previously romantically linked to Baird, of murder two days later after the he turned himself in to a Sydney police station.

On Feb. 27, police found the pair’s bodies on a farm in the town of Bungonia, about 185 kilometers southwest of Sydney.

The murder of Baird and Davies caused uproar, especially in the LGBT+ community, and motivated the organizers of city’s famous mardi gras to ask that police do not take part in the Mar. 4 parade, although they were in the end able to do so out of uniform. EFE

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