Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly confessed to killing two men, telling his friend it was an “out-of-body experience”, before attempting to play it off as a joke, a court has been told.

Lamarre-Condon, 31, is accused of fatally shooting couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.

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

Lamarre-Condon’s friend, whose identity is suppressed, told the New South Wales supreme court on Friday that the officer arrived at his workplace the day Baird and Davies were killed.

Lamarre-Condon told him “I’ve done something”, and when the friend asked for an explanation, the policeman said “I’ve killed people”, the jury was told.

“I said ‘are you fucking kidding me?’, he said ‘I wish I was’,” the friend told the court.…