Victim 'petrified' of armed officer accused in Sydney couple's murder

In a Sydney courtroom, the trial of Beau Lamarre-Condon asks a question that haunts the edges of intimate violence: what happens when the very institution meant to protect becomes the source of terror? Jesse Baird, 26, and his partner Luke Davies, 29, were fatally shot in Baird's Paddington home in February 2024, allegedly by Lamarre-Condon, a police officer who had briefly been in a relationship with Baird. Testimony from those who knew Baird reveals a man who feared not only the gun his former partner carried, but the authority behind it — a power that could silence him before he ever had th