In scenes recalling the days following the passing of Princess Diana, a sea of flowers has been left outside the home where police allege TV presenter Jesse Baird and his flight attendant partner Luke Davies were murdered.
Human remains, believed to belong to the loved-up couple, were discovered stuffed inside surf bags and buried in a lonely bush grave on Tuesday afternoon.
Mr Baird, 26, and Mr Davies, 29, had spent the night before their alleged killings partying at the Beresford Hotel club in Surry Hills with friends before returning to the ex-Channel 10 roving reporter’s $1.5million rented Paddington terrace home.
According to court documents, Mr Baird and Mr Davies were both allegedly killed by NSW Police Senior Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon at the location sometime between 12.01am and 5.30pm on Monday, February 19.
A sea of flowers has been left outside the home where police allege TV presenter Jesse Baird and his flight attendant partner Luke Davies were murdered (pictured)
Beau Lamarre-Condon has been charged with the double murder of Mr Baird, 26, and Mr Davies, 29
Lamarre-Condon is alleged to have driven to the Southern Tablelands last Wednesday in a rented van with an acquaintance and bought an angle driver and padlock on the way
But police were unable to discover their bodies for more than week after Lamarre-Condon allegedly hired a white HiAce van to hide them on a remote farm property in Bungonia, around 180km south-west of Sydney.
It is alleged he then returned to the site to move the bodies to another location in Bungonia about 20 minutes’ drive away.
In the days since the pair were reported missing, friends, family and members of the public have turned up at Mr Baird’s Paddington home to leave floral tributes.
Dozens of bunches of sunflowers, roses, dahlias, chrysanthemums and tulips are now attached to the property’s iron gates in a tribute reminiscent of the mountains of flowers left in public places in the wake of Princess Diana’s death.
Another relative of Jesse’s travelling alone in a black vehicle also arrived
Shattered friends and loved ones on Tuesday paid their respects at the house in Paddington where Baird and Davies were allegedly murdered by Lamarre-Condon using his police weapon
Dozens of bunches of sunflowers, roses, dahlias, chrysanthemums and tulips are now attached to the property’s iron gates in a tribute reminiscent of the mountains of flowers left in public places in the wake of Princess Diana’s death
A photo of Luke, which was widely circulated in the press and on social media after his disappearance, was propped up next to flowers
Devastated relatives of Jesse Baird also visited the bushland graves of the Channel 10 presenter and Mr Davies on Tuesday evening.
Four of Mr Baird’s family members, seated in a blue car with Victorian number plates, were followed by another relative travelling alone in a black four-wheel drive.
All looked solemn as they spoke to police and were escorted through with several women wearing sunglasses to hide their grief.
After arriving at the scene, officers took the group to the location where the couple’s bodies were found inside surf bags, covered in dirt and rocks, by a fence line in shrubbery along Jerrara Road.
Relatives spent about 15 minutes with Mr Baird’s body before driving away from the scene.
About 180km away, shattered friends of Mr Baird and Mr Davies gathered at Bronte Beach for a vigil.
Lamarre-Condon is currently in Silverwater Correctional Complex, in Sydney’s west.
His matter is before the courts.
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