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NSW Police Commissioner has doubled down on her comment that she is “grateful” to accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon for helping police find the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
Police Chief Karen Webb was attacked last night by Mitch Swanson, a close friend of Jesse Baird, after she announced that police had found the remains of Baird and Davies in surfboard bags at a property in remote Bungonia, in NSW Southern Tablelands.
In an interview with the Today Show on Wednesday morning, Commissioner Webb doubled down on her comment, telling host Sarah Abo that it was the families of the alleged victims who were grateful their remains had been found.
It comes as Commissioner Webb brushed off criticism of her leadership with a Taylor Swift quote, saying “haters like to hate”, and sparked a stir by describing the incident as an alleged “crime of passion”.
Police Commissioner Karen Webb appeared to double down on her controversial comment about being “very grateful” to accused double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon.
Sarah Abo asked Webb about the controversy over his handling of the alleged double murder in a week filled with apparent blunders by the top cop.
Abo told Commissioner Webb: ‘You, personally, Commissioner, have been criticized for some of the language you have been using; that press conference yesterday was felt a little… in a way, throughout the workshop.
‘As you said before, the (alleged) ‘crime of passion’ (comment) is something you regret. Yesterday he said that he was very grateful to the accused. It is difficult right? Do you have to be in front of the cameras?
Karen Webb responded: ‘I think the comment about being grateful is a gratitude that the family now knows, and was able to know yesterday, where their loved ones were.
‘If that information didn’t appear, we would still be searching. So we are grateful that the information was presented in a way that detectives could act on.
“And we could tell the families and take them to their loved ones.”
Asked if she was comfortable in her media role, Ms Webb replied: “Of course I am.”
The latest interview comes in a week in which Sunrise’s Natalie Barr lost her temper at Webb in a trainwreck interview over the top cop’s ‘haters’ comment.
Jesse Baird’s friend Mitch Swanson (pictured, left, with Baird) criticized Commissioner Webb’s use of the word “grateful.”
The bodies of Luke Davies (left) and Jesse Baird (right) were discovered on Tuesday after their accused killer, Beau Lamarre-Condon, allegedly told officers where he had left them.
Then, bizarrely, the commissioner refused to leave Sunrise studios for ten minutes because she feared being ambushed by the television cameras outside.
It also comes as insiders have told Daily Mail Australia that while Webb was “a very nice person”, he simply “doesn’t have what it takes to be a police commissioner”, and a petition has been launched asking for his resignation.
Mitch Swanson, who was good friends with Baird, was outraged when he heard Ms. Webb’s seemingly thoughtless choice of words, describing her as “grateful.”
‘Saying how GRATEFUL they are for [Lamarre-Condon] “By (allegedly) revealing information it is just another blow to his family and friends,” Swanson wrote to his friends.
In several online comments (one pictured), Swanson said Baird’s loved ones are “not grateful” to her alleged killer and described police’s “handling of this” as an “absolute train wreck.” .
“The way the police have handled this is an absolute disaster.”
Swanson later shared another scathing critique of Commissioner Webb’s text on her Instagram Story.
‘Heartbroken again. The children have been found,” she stated.
‘We are in no way ‘grateful’ for the fact that the defendants helped the police find the bodies of our dear friends.
‘What a fucked up thing to say!’
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Swanson and New South Wales Police for further comment.