A police officer in Australia has been charged with murdering two males whose our bodies had been discovered on Tuesday in a rural space south of Sydney, and the authorities mentioned he had as soon as had a relationship with one of many victims.
The police commissioner for the state of New South Wales, Karen Webb, mentioned that detectives had discovered the our bodies of the lads, Jesse Baird, 26, and his associate, Luke Davies, 29, who had been lacking for greater than per week, in Bungonia, a small city about 115 miles southwest of Sydney.
“We believe — we are very confident — that we have located Luke and Jesse,” she mentioned at a information convention on Tuesday. She expressed condolences to their households and added that the details about the placement of the our bodies had come “with the assistance of the accused.”
The police officer, Beaumont Lamarre-Condon, was charged Friday with two counts of homicide, based on info offered by the Local Court of New South Wales. He was being held and can subsequent seem in court docket on April 23. He had authorized illustration, a spokesman from the court docket mentioned by electronic mail.
Detective Superintendent Daniel Doherty mentioned that Mr. Baird and the officer had been in a relationship “at some stage.”
Mr. Lamarre-Condon surrendered to the authorities in Bondi, a Sydney suburb, on Friday, ending a search by detectives in reference to the disappearance of Mr. Baird, a former tv host, and Mr. Davies, a flight attendant with Qantas, Detective Superintendent Daniel Doherty mentioned individually final week.
A separate assertion from the police recognized Mr. Lamarre-Condon as an off-duty senior constable hooked up to a particular command.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation quoted court docket paperwork as saying the lads had been murdered between 12:01 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 19.
The discovery of the our bodies was the newest improvement in a homicide case that has led investigators throughout cities and cities within the Sydney space.
The males had been final seen in Paddington, an Eastern suburb of Sydney, on Feb. 19, a police assertion mentioned. Mr. Davies was reported lacking after his household was unable to contact him and he didn’t report back to work, the police mentioned. On Feb. 21, a few of their belongings had been present in a dumpster within the Sydney suburb of Cronulla, the police mentioned.
A “projectile” present in Paddington was ballistically matched to a New South Wales police firearm, the deputy commissioner mentioned. He mentioned a white van had been discovered that the authorities believed had been used to move the our bodies.
