SYDNEY (AP) — A former police officer in Australia’s New South Wales state pleaded not guilty to murder Friday and told the court prosecutors had rejected his offer to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter in the killings of his former boyfriend and the man’s partner.

Beau Lamarra-Condon is accused of using his service pistol to kill his ex, Jesse Baird, a 26-year-old former television reporter, and Luke Davies, a 29-year-old flight attendant, at Baird’s Sydney home in February 2024.

Lamarra-Condon, 30 appeared in the New South Wales state Supreme Court by video link from prison. He began addressing the judge unprompted, saying he wanted a number of things recorded in the court transcript.

Lamarra-Condon said he had offered to plead guilty to Baird’s manslaughter during a lo

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