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Beau Lamarre-Condon trial live updates: double murder accused describes trying to sink bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in dam

World news | The Guardian·Kat Wong·5 days ago
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‘Like having a blackout’: Lamarre-Condon does not recall buying weights for bodies

Lamarre-Condon tells the court that he has no recollection of going to Kmart and purchasing weights to sink the bodies of Baird and Davies.

He accepts that he went to the retailer and bought the goods, but could not recall it.

double quotation mark It was like having a black out.

Not having sleep in 80 hours and the panic of everything - things were starting having a bit of a blur.

‘It wouldn’t go down’: Lamarre-Condon says bodies would not sink

The former officer says his friend Elizabeth Kennedy accompanied him to the dam on a property in Bungonia.

He tells the court they started mixing concrete, moved the bags and began putting concrete into the bags.

When Lamarre-Condon tried to push the bags in the water, they would not sink the entire way, the jury heard.

The officer then asked his friend to get his pocketknife and she began cutting the bag to try get water inside it.

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