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The Challenge host Sarah Harris broke down in tears whereas paying tribute to late Studio 10 presenter Jesse Baird on Sunday night time – simply moments after it emerged the seek for his physique, and the physique of his boyfriend Luke Davies, had prolonged to a waterway 200km south of Sydney, and that specialist divers had been deployed.
Harris’ tearful tribute additionally adopted the event late on Sunday afternoon that the serving NSW Police officer accused of murdering Baird and Davies – Beau Lamarre-Condon – was refusing to inform investigations the place their stays had been positioned.
Talking concerning the final time she noticed Baird – who was a fill-in host for the just lately cancelled morning present Studio 10 – Harris stated Baird had ‘a lot expertise’ and had been telling pals Davies, whom he had just lately began relationship, was ‘the one’.
She choked again tears whereas recalling how he would mild up the Ten newsroom.
‘It has been a very exhausting week for lots of us proper throughout the Ten Community. It is exhausting to even discuss Jesse prior to now tense,’ she stated.
‘Jesse was greater than only a colleague, he was a pal [and] like a bit brother. He had this massive lovely smile [and] at 26 he was an absolute star… a kind of youngsters that had a giant smile, massive expertise and 2024 was purported to be his yr.
‘To Jesse’s household: he spoke about you typically with a lot love and we’re simply so sorry.’
The Challenge host Sarah Harris broke down in tears whereas paying tribute to late Studio 10 presenter Jesse Baird on Sunday night time
Her tribute got here simply moments after it emerged the seek for Baird’s physique, and the physique of his boyfriend Luke Davies, had prolonged to Goulburn, and that divers had been deployed
Harris recalled the final time she noticed Mr Baird was a number of months in the past, in late 2023, when he had informed her a couple of new job alternative following the cancellation of Studio 10.
Fellow host Hamish Macdonald additionally prolonged his ‘love, ideas and respect’ in direction of each Mr Baird and Mr Davies’ households within the wake of their deaths.
Macdonald held his composure all through the section regardless of the phrases being ‘so tough to search out’.
‘I do know significantly everybody concerned would all wish to ship and share with you our love at this most tough time,’ he stated.
‘That is [supposed to be] homosexual Christmas, Mardi Gras, and these guys ought to have been having the time of their dwell [but] I feel will probably be a really completely different Mardi Gras this yr and at this specific second’
He assured viewers that The Challenge would ‘watch to be sure that justice is delivered pretty, robustly and easily’ because the police investigation continues.
Detectives on Sunday returned to Mr Baird’s Paddington condo to be able to accumulate extra proof and had been seen leaving with a number of brown paper luggage.
It was later introduced search events had been combing via part of Goulburn, about 200km, or two hours’ drive, from the place the murders allegedly occurred in Paddington, in Sydney’s east.
On Sunday night time, police confirmed a criminal offense scene had been established at a dam close to Marulan within the Southern Tablelands.
Divers had been known as in from the Marine Space Command to be able to help.
The positioning, believed to be a dam, is about 200km south of the Paddington house the place police allege the couple had been killed with Lamarre-Condon’s police-issued gun.
The crime scene is one in all a number of places established as a part of the investigation.
The dam is 35km from the NSW Police Academy in Goulburn, the place Lamarre-Condon educated to grow to be an officer earlier than he joined the pressure in 2019.
Beforehand the crews had been completely wanting throughout Sydney and Newcastle.
Police allege Luke Davies (left) and Jesse Baird (proper) had been killed by serving NSW Police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon
Beau Lamarre-Condon, the previous accomplice of Baird, is known to be refusing to inform investigations the place the our bodies are positioned
Detectives and forensics officers are nonetheless scouring the state to search out the our bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies
Lamarre-Condon – the NSW Police constable who allegedly murdered Baird, his ex-partner, and his new boyfriend Davies, is reportedly refusing to cooperate with officers because the determined seek for the boys’s our bodies continues.
Lamarre-Condon, 28, has been charged two counts of homicide and it’s alleged he used his police-issued Glock within the killings.
Lamarre-Condon is known to have declined his fellow officers’ request to help them to find the places of Baird and Davies’ our bodies, reviews The Australian.
Detectives and forensics officers have been scouring the state looking for the place the younger males’s stays is likely to be.
In the meantime, pals of Mr Baird and Mr Davies have been laying bouquets of flowers at Mr Baird’s Paddington house since Saturday because the investigation continues.
‘The least I can do is come and provides some flowers to 2 lovely boys,’ one pal informed 9News exterior the condo.
‘I simply hope that the boys might be introduced house for his or her households to be laid to relaxation peacefully and respectfully.’
‘The least I can do is come and provides some flowers to 2 lovely boys,’ one pal informed 9News exterior the condo.
‘I simply hope that the boys might be introduced house for his or her households to be laid to relaxation peacefully and respectfully.’
Earlier on Sunday, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb issued a heartfelt assertion during which she known as on the neighborhood to ‘have endurance’ as police proceed their investigation.
She additionally stated she had been left saddened and shocked by the deaths.
‘I wish to prolong my heartfelt condolences to the households and pals of Luke Davies and Jesse Baird. It’s tough to grasp the grief and ache of their loss,’ she stated.
‘I acknowledge this week’s occasions are distressing for a lot of and I share the unhappiness and shock concerning the alleged nature of Luke and Jesse’s deaths.
‘I perceive there are a lot of unanswered questions and whereas I can’t touch upon the matter earlier than the courts, I can reassure Luke and Jesse’s family members, and the folks of New South Wales, that we’re working across the clock to search out these solutions.’
She additionally urged anybody with data to contact police.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb requested the neighborhood to ‘have endurance’ with the investigation
On Sunday, it was reported by The Day by day Telegraph that Lamarre-Condon had used Baird’s telephone to textual content his housemates saying he was shifting to Perth.
The texts had been despatched on Thursday, which initially led police to consider the previous leisure presenter was nonetheless alive.
A second message reportedly requested his housemate to place his belongings out on the road and stated he would ship cleaners to the house on Thursday.
Officers at the moment are investigating the ‘decoy’ texts Lamarre-Condon allegedly despatched from Baird’s telephone which they consider had been despatched in a bid to hide the alleged killings.
Police had been first notified of the suspected murder after they discovered the bloodied garments and possessions belonging to Baird and Davies in a Cronulla skip bin on Wednesday.
They may proceed extracting information from the telephone as their investigation continues.
Mr Baird and Mr Davies had been final seen final Sunday
Lamarre-Condon allegedly despatched texts from Baird’s telephone to his roommates saying he was shifting to Perth (pictured Mr Baird’s condo)
Earlier on Sunday, Ms Webb additionally issued an apology for the failings of police to ‘adequately and pretty’ examine crimes dedicated towards members of the state’s LGBTQI+ neighborhood.
The feedback had been in relation to the Particular Fee of Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes in NSW, which investigated whether or not homosexual hate bias was concerned within the 34 suspicious deaths and unsolved deaths between 1970 and 2010.
Ms Webb acknowledged the ‘elevated struggling skilled by victims and their households the place the crimes had been motivated by bias towards members of the LGBTIQ neighborhood’.
‘To the victims and households that NSW Police failed by not adequately and pretty investigating these deaths between 1970 and 2010, I’m sorry,’ she stated.
‘I apologise for the gaps in these investigative processes the place information and displays had been misplaced or not examined with sufficient rigour.’
‘I realise that this has meant missed alternatives to determine doable offenders as new leads emerged or as new forensic advances turned out there.’
She additionally vowed that police do higher.
‘I guarantee the LGBTIQ neighborhood that below my management, NSW Police will use these classes to proceed to enhance the best way it serves all members of the neighborhood with respect, equity, and inclusivity,’ she stated.
‘The errors of the previous won’t outline our future.’
Unbiased MP Alex Greenwich informed The Challenge Sydney’s homosexual neighborhood was ‘grieving’ in a second that needs to be ‘a time of celebration’ as Mardi Gras begins.
Police are investigating whether or not Lamarre-Condon and Mr Baird’s current breakup offered a motive for the alleged homicide
Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty stated no motive has been discovered however the relationship was an ‘apparent line of inquiry’
A motive for the alleged murders remains to be being thought of and NSW Police Detective Superintendent Danny Doherty stated on Friday Lamarre-Condon’s current relationship with Baird was an ‘apparent line of inquiry’.
Officers are investigating whether or not Lamarre-Condon’s resentment over the break-up offered the senior constable with a cause to allegedly shoot the boys.
Baird and Davies had been final seen final Sunday night time earlier than heading again to Baird’s Paddington condo the place it’s alleged Lamarre-Condon murdered them.
The police-issued gun was discovered locked away in a suburban police station protected after Lamarre-Condon checked it in and took sick depart on Tuesday.
Police searched the house of Lamarre-Condon’s mom, who additionally works with NSW Police as a probationary constable, and his stepfather on Thursday night time.
Lamarre-Condon had labored as a youth engagement officer previous to the alleged homicide and had just lately informed associates he was about to start coaching with the Safety Operations Unit.
The unit is accountable for the safety of politicians, diplomats and different dignitaries.
