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Cop ‘asked friend to ditch phone’ after murders · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. Accused killer cop Beau Lamar Condon
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  Speaker 1: asked a friend to dispose of a mobile phone connected
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  Speaker 1: to two men he's accused of murdering. That's the evidence
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  Speaker 1: heard in the New South Wales Supreme Court, where Lamar
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  Speaker 1: Condon is pleading not guilty to the murders of his ex-boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: TV presenter Jesse Baird, and Baird's new partner, flight attendant
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  Speaker 1: Luke Davies. The Crown alleges Lamar Condon broke into Baird's
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  Speaker 1: Paddington share house on February 19, 2024 and shot the
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  Speaker 1: two men using his police-issued Glock, then attempted to cover
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  Speaker 1: up his alleged crime. Defence barrister John Stratton SC previously
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  Speaker 1: told the court Lamar Condon acted in self-defence. Friend Stacey
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  Speaker 1: Parker told the court on Thursday Lamar Condon claimed on
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  Speaker 1: a phone call he'd been set up by detectives investigating
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  Speaker 1: the disappearance of Baird and Davies. We've used a voice
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  Speaker 1: actor to bring you the words spoken in court.
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  Speaker 2: When I spoke with him, he told me that two
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  Speaker 2: detectives had been to his mum's place looking for him
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  Speaker 2: and then he said he was going to be set
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  Speaker 2: up for two guys that had gone missing and he
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  Speaker 2: used to know one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Parker also said Lamar Condon asked her to dispose of
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  Speaker 1: a phone for him if he was to send it
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  Speaker 1: to her in Western Australia. Parker said the pair had
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  Speaker 1: earlier bonded over their shared concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine.
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  Speaker 2: He told me he'd stolen some police files from the
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  Speaker 2: police commissioner to do with COVID and he wanted me
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of the phone. I agreed to do it.
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  Speaker 2: He asked me how far away from Perth I lived.
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  Speaker 2: I told him about an hour and a half. He
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  Speaker 2: told me that I had to be 30 to 40
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  Speaker 2: kilometres away from my house and then he wanted me
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  Speaker 2: to turn the phone on, turn it off and then
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  Speaker 2: throw it into some sort of body of water. I
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  Speaker 2: was going to do it, not knowing what it was.
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  Speaker 1: The court previously heard Lamar Condon had allegedly sent messages
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  Speaker 1: from Baird's phone. impersonating him and suggesting he was planning
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  Speaker 1: a holiday to Western Australia. Parker said Lamar Condon planned
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  Speaker 1: to mail the phone to her and instructed her to
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  Speaker 1: switch it on for 10 minutes, then throw it into
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  Speaker 1: a body of water. The next day, Parker said she
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  Speaker 1: went straight to police after seeing a news report in
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  Speaker 1: which Lamar Condon was named as a suspect in the
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  Speaker 1: disappearances of Baird and Davies and said she never saw
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  Speaker 1: the former police officer again. More than $ 100 million in
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  Speaker 1: COVID relief was paid to Victorian businesses that hadn't reported
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  Speaker 1: any turnover for several years. That's according to a bombshell
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  Speaker 1: report by Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog. IBAC found a total of
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  Speaker 1: $ 257 million was paid to more than 9,000 ineligible applicants
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  Speaker 1: under the Business Costs Assistance Scheme, and IBAC exposed what
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  Speaker 1: it said were serious failures by senior public servants. Australia's
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  Speaker 1: Valley's Maxwell restaurant and the Boross's Hentley Farm were among
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  Speaker 1: 10 establishments to receive one star. The state government won't
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