据悉尼法院审理的案情显示，在贝奥·拉马尔-康登（Beau Lamarre-Condon）涉嫌谋杀杰西·贝尔德（Jesse Baird）和卢克·戴维斯（Luke Davies）的前一天，他曾问过一位同事：如果这名臭名昭著的杀手没有自杀，他是否还能逃脱法律的制裁？
Police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon asked a colleague, a day before he allegedly murdered Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, if a high-profile killer would have “gotten away with it” if he’d not taken his own life, a Sydney court has heard.
31岁的拉马尔-康登被指控于2024年2月19日在贝尔德位于帕丁顿的家中，使用警用武器将这对夫妇射杀。
Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally shooting the couple with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.
他对两项谋杀指控以及一项入室盗窃（情节严重）的指控均表示不认罪。
He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter.
本·希金森（Ben Higginson）曾在新南威尔士州警方的刑事调查小组工作，他在周五的最高法院庭审中讲述了与拉马尔-康登共事的经历。2024年2月18日，这两名警察当时正在参加一场支持巴勒斯坦的抗议活动。当时拉马尔-康登向希金森询问了工作相关的情况。
Ben Higginson, who served with the New South Wales police force criminal investigation team in Sydney, told the supreme court trial on Friday about working with Lamarre-Condon the day before Baird and Davies were killed. The two police officers had been working at a pro-Palestine protest on 18 February 2024 when Lamarre-Condon asked Higginson about work.
希金森表示，那段时间工作非常紧张，因为他正在调查另一起谋杀案——21岁的莉莉·詹姆斯（Lilie James）的死亡事件。莉莉是圣安德鲁大教堂学校的水球教练，她在2023年10月被保罗·蒂森（Paul Thijssen）杀害，而两人就在几个月前刚刚分手。监控录像显示，蒂森在杀害莉莉后带着锤子进入了学校的体育馆，随后她的尸体才被发现。蒂森随后在沃克卢斯悬崖（Vaucluse cliffs）自杀身亡。
Higginson replied that it had been a “bit of a rough time” as he had been investigating the murder of Lilie James James, 21, was a water polo coach at St Andrew’s Cathedral school who was killed by Paul Thijssen in October 2023 days after the pair broke up. CCTV captured Thijssen following James into the school’s gymnasium with a hammer before her body was found. He later killed himself at the Vaucluse cliffs.
希金森在讨论这起案件时情绪激动，因为他知道这起犯罪发生在他的母校，所以这件事对他来说格外沉重。不过他提到，当拉马尔-康登询问莉莉的谋杀案时，拉马尔-康登的态度显得非常冷漠。希金森说：“他认为保罗（蒂森）的行为很愚蠢。”
Higginson became emotional when discussing the case with Lamarre-Condon, noting the crime had occurred at his old school, so it “hit home a bit more”, the court was told on Friday. But when Lamarre-Condon asked about James’s murder he seemed “blase”, Higginson told the court. “He thought Paul was stupid for doing it on CCTV,” the police investigator said.
希金森还向法庭透露，拉马尔-康登接着问道：“如果蒂森没有自杀，他还能逃脱惩罚吗？”他补充说，警方在调查犯罪时并不会仅仅依赖监控录像作为证据。
Higginson told the court that Lamarre-Condon then asked if Thijssen hadn’t committed suicide “would he have gotten away with it?”The investigator said police didn’t only rely on CCTV when examining a crime.
希金森提到了2007年马修·莱维森的死亡事件，并告诉拉马尔-康登：“我记得莱维森的搭档在Bunnings超市购买了防水布，后来他们将莱维森的尸体埋在了国家公园里。”
Higginson brought up the 2007 death of Matthew Leveson and told Lamarre-Condon he “could remember the CCTV of [Leveson’s] partner at Bunnings buying tarp, and he ended up burying him in the national park”.
两位警官随后都表示，现金比银行卡更难以追踪；同时他们也说明了侦探们在调查可疑死亡案件时会考虑哪些线索。
Both police officers then spoke about how cash was more difficult to trace than bank cards and “what avenues detectives look at for suspicious deaths”, the court heard.
当拉马尔-康登询问有关手机的情况时，希金森回答说：“如果你把手机忘在家里后犯了谋杀罪，手机很可能会出现在你居住地的附近。”希金森表示，他和拉马尔-康登关系并不亲密，但他们在工作中会互相交流；他还记得拉马尔-康登曾向他透露过自己的副业（即非法交易）。
When Lamarre-Condon asked about phones, Higginson said he responded: “If you were to leave your phone at home and commit a murder, the phone would be showing up in the vicinity of your residence.”Higginson said the two weren’t close, but they would chat at work, and he recalled Lamarre-Condon would tell him about his “side-hustles”. “Apparently he goes to France to buy Hermes bags and resell them here,” he told the court.
辩护律师约翰·斯特拉顿在开庭陈述中表示，贝尔德和戴维斯是在与那名警察发生冲突后“出于自卫”而中枪身亡的。
The defence lawyer John Stratton SC said during his opening statement that Baird and Davies were fatally shot in “self-defence” after struggles with the policeman.
陪审团被告知，拉马尔-康登当时因惊慌失措而立即开始清理现场。娜塔莉·亚当斯法官主持的审判仍在继续进行中。
Lamarre-Condon immediately began cleaning up the scene because he “panicked”, the jury was told. The trial before justice Natalie Adams continues.