Slain Qantas attendant Luke Davies moved his crewmates to tears with his kindness on one of his last flights before his death.
Davies, 29, and her boyfriend, Channel 10 presenter Jesse Baird, died last week, allegedly at the hands of police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon, who has been charged with their murders.
Just three weeks ago, Davies was on a flight from Sydney to Singapore alongside a dying man with dementia who was traveling to Switzerland with his wife to pay their last visit to their son.
Slain Qantas attendant Luke Davies moved his crewmates to tears with his kindness on one of his last flights before his death.
Davies, 29, and her boyfriend, Channel 10 presenter Jesse Baird, died last week, allegedly at the hands of police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon, who has been charged with their murders.
The attentive flight attendant spent the entire eight-and-a-half-hour trip, including her break, with the man and his wife as they flew first class.
‘The wife had told him [her husband] “She had severe dementia and she was really saddened because she kept saying he was the most beautiful husband and the kindest man, and she was losing him to this cruel disease,” Qantas colleague Brooke Walters told Sydney Morning Herald.
“She was getting exhausted because every 30 seconds he lost his memory, like a goldfish, and Luke took it upon himself to constantly take care of them.”
Mrs Walters recalled how her friend made what should have been an extremely stressful experience as comfortable as possible.
He fondly remembered tucking the man into his bed, calming him in his confusion and comforting his sometimes upset wife.
“They had told Luke that they had booked the flight a year and a half ago, but the husband had deteriorated a lot in the last three months, so it was going to be his last trip to see his son, and Luke wanted it to be as comfortable as possible,” he said.
Ms Walters added that Mr Davies loved to travel and was a pleasure to be with.
The bodies of Davies and Baird were finally found on Tuesday afternoon, more than a week after they were allegedly murdered at Baird’s Paddington home.
NSW Police Constable Lamarre-Condon is accused of shooting them both dead at 9.50am last Monday.
Senior NSW Police Constable Lamarre-Condon is accused of shooting them both dead at 9.50am last Monday.
Lamarre-Condon has been accused of murdering Jesse Baird (right) and Luke Davies (left) at Baird’s rented house in Paddington last Monday.
Lamarre-Condon is alleged to have driven to the Southern Tablelands last Wednesday in a van rented from an acquaintance and purchased an angle driver and lock along the way.
He is then alleged to have hired a white Toyota HiAce van at Sydney Airport before returning to the $3 million rented terrace house to collect their bodies on Monday night when the van was caught outside the house on CCTV.
On Tuesday, police allege the officer made “partial confessions” about the murders to an acquaintance, but the alarm was not raised until Wednesday after the couple’s bloodied clothes and belongings were found in a bin in Cronulla, in South Sydney.
Lamarre-Condon is believed to have been admitted to the hospital for outpatient surgery last Tuesday, a day after the alleged shooting, 2GB reported.
The day after the surgery, Lamarre-Condon is alleged to have driven to Bungonia in an apparent attempt to dispose of the bodies at one of several dams.
He later drove back to Sydney and allegedly bought weights at a Sydney department store at 11pm on Wednesday before returning alone to Bungonia again.
The van apparently left the Bungonia area around 4:30 a.m. Thursday in a possible attempt to move the bodies to a new location, according to police.
Jesse Baird’s distraught family were seen arriving at the crime scene in Bungonia, about 180 kilometers south of Sydney in the Southern Tablelands, on Tuesday night to view his body.
Devastated friends of Baird and Davies gathered on Brontë Beach for a vigil.
Davies and Baird had a wide circle of friends despite having recently moved to Sydney.
Lamarre-Condon then allegedly drove the van to Newcastle, 165km north of Sydney, arriving around 8.30pm at the home of her police officer friend Renee Fortuna, where she allegedly borrowed a hose to clean the vehicle.
It is alleged he then drove back to Sydney, to his uncle Brian Lamarre’s home in Grays Point, in Sydney’s south, before dawn on Friday morning and then handed himself in at Bondi police station at 10.39am. A.M
On Tuesday, around 11 a.m., Lamarre-Condon finally agreed to help police from his Silverwater prison cell and told detectives where they would find the men’s remains: 20 minutes from another location in Bungonia. where police had been searching on Monday.
Officers then found the couple’s bodies stuffed inside surfboard bags and buried under rocks and debris.
Baird’s devastated relatives visited the site on Tuesday night and spent 15 minutes with his remains before leaving the scene.
About 180 kilometers away, devastated friends of Baird and Davies gathered on Brontë Beach for a vigil.
