Beau Lamarre-Condon has said he is “guilty of manslaughter” but said shooting Jesse Baird wasn’t intentional, as he gave evidence in his double-murder trial.

The former police officer is accused of fatally shooting Baird and his partner, Luke Davies, with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home in Sydney on 19 February 2024.

He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one charge of aggravated break and enter.

Lamarre-Condon continued giving evidence at the New South Wales supreme court on Friday. He described the moment he shot Baird, at which point Baird’s mother, Helen, left the courtroom.

“As police officers we are trained to shoot people at the centre of body mass … I had a split second moment where I said drop the knife … It was just police mode now,” he said from the witness box.

“If I didn’t do that I was 110% going to have that knife driven into my throat. And Jesse Baird was going to be sitting in my position today.”

Luke Davies (left) and Jesse Baird (right).…