Accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon did not plan to kill or harm Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, and his attempts to conceal their deaths were "not the actions of a man who believed he was guilty of murder", a jury has been told.

The 31-year-old former police officer is accused of murdering Jesse Baird, 26, and Luke Davies, 29, with a police firearm at Baird's home in Paddington in Sydney's inner-east on 19 February 2024.

Lamarre-Condon's barrister John Stratton told the court it was not in dispute that his client was "very upset" and did "some stupid things" after a breakup with Baird in November 2023, including "looking through the phone of Jesse Baird … and deleting text messages" from other men.

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