<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As ex-</span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/police" rel="" target="" title="police"><span>police</span></a><span> officer Beaumont Lamarre-Condon's months-long double </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/murder" rel="" target="" title="murder"><span>murder</span></a><span> trial draws closer, prosecutors could call hundreds of witnesses to give evidence.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 30-year-old has pleaded not guilty to murdering TV presenter Jesse Baird and his flight attendant partner Luke Davies at their inner-city Sydney home in February 2024.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Lamarre-Condon briefly dated Baird.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/dezi-freeman-update-police-tracked-car-to-hideout-on-rural-property-before-the-manhunt-ended-in-hail-of-bullets/ceab03c4-6d99-4417-9e9f-ee674d52548c" target="_blank"><strong><span>Fugitive Dezi Freeman believed to have been shot up to 20 times during tense stand-off with police</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>With a three-month trial due to begin in September, the former officer appeared by audio-visual link from Long Bay prison for a short court hearing today.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Wearing a prison-issued green top, he spoke only to confirm that he could hear NSW Supreme Court Justice Natalie Adams.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The judge heard the prosecution witness list spanned 200 to 300 people.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/beau-lamarre-condon-mammoth-witness-list-at-accused-killer-cops-trial/84461620-53d1-41da-bb1f-ff86b279078b" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>With discussions still to take place between prosecution and defence lawyers, the number of people actually testifying in person could be cut down to about 100, prosecutor Brett Hatfield SC said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/gregory-hills-gym-shooting-three-men-charged-sydney/9108efbd-4b6e-4600-941e-8172ac8136ac" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Three charged over brazen daylight shooting outside Sydney gym</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Lamarre-Condon's defence team is still waiting to receive evidence from telecommunications experts, crime scene reconstructions and jail call transcripts.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 30-year-old became the first serving NSW police officer charged with murder in several decades after he was accused of shooting the couple at Baird's Paddington home in Sydney's inner-east.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police allege the bodies were then dumped at a rural property.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The senior constable later handed himself in, was charged with murder and eventually sacked by NSW Police.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span> Lamarre-Condon joined the force in 2019.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span> His case will return to court on May 29.</span></div></div>