A heartbroken friend of Luke Davies has revealed the last message he received from the flight attendant before he was allegedly murdered.
Jesse Baird, 26, and Davies, 29, had spent the night before their alleged murders partying at the Beresford Hotel club in Surry Hills with friends before returning to the terrace house rented for €1.5 million. dollars from the former Channel 10 roving reporter in Paddington.
The couple were shot by NSW Police Senior Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon in the apartment about 9.50am on Monday, police allege.
Now one of Davies’ close friends has revealed that the Qantas stewardess sent him a message just 20 minutes before his death.
Jesse Baird, 26, and Davies, 29, had spent the night before their alleged murders partying at the Beresford Hotel club in Surry Hills with friends before returning to the £1.5 rented terrace house. million dollars from former Channel 10 roving reporter in Paddington (the couple are pictured together)
One of Davies’ close friends, Dean Bailey (pictured, right), revealed the Qantas stewardess sent him a message just 20 minutes before his death.
“We were always sending each other funny Instagram memes, so I received one at 9:18 the morning of the incident, and it was a funny Instagram meme, followed by a crying laughing emoji, which is pretty much what Luke he said,” his close friend Dean Bailey told Sunrise.
‘You could imagine him physically laughing while sending that message.
“Knowing that 30 minutes after that, things got worse and the unimaginable happened, it’s heartbreaking to think about what happened with that message he sent me and what happened in the next 30 minutes.”
Human remains belonging to Davies and Baird were discovered stuffed inside surf bags and buried in a solitary grave in a bush on Tuesday afternoon.
Their alleged killer allegedly rented a white rental van to transport their bodies to a remote farm property in Bungonia, about 180 kilometers southwest of Sydney.
A sea of flowers was left outside the house where police allege TV presenter Jesse Baird and fellow flight attendant Luke Davies were murdered (pictured)
Beau Lamarre-Condon (pictured) has been charged with two counts of murder
He is alleged to have then returned to the scene to move the bodies to another location in Bungonia, about a 20-minute drive away.
Bailey said he had not “accepted” his friend’s passing.
‘I wake up and expect to get a message from Luke saying: “Hi, I’m going to Brisbane this weekend, what are we going to do?” “It’s heartbreaking to know that message will never get through,” Mr. Bailey said.
Devastated relatives of Jesse Baird visited the graves of the Channel 10 presenter and Mr Davies on Tuesday night.
That same night, about 180 kilometers away, devastated friends of Baird and Davies gathered on Brontë Beach for a vigil.
Lamarre-Condon is currently at the Silverwater Correctional Complex in western Sydney..
His matter is before the courts.
