‘Heartbreaking’ final text before Luke Davies was allegedly murdered and his body was found dumped in a shallow grave
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 Mr Davies, 29, had spent the night before their alleged murder partying at the Beresford Hotel club in Surry Hills with friends before returning to the ex’s $1.5 million rented terrace house Channel 10 roving reporter in Paddington.
The couple were shot in the apartment by NSW Police Senior Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon at around 9.50am on Monday, police allege.
Now one of Davie’s close friends has revealed that the Qantas flight attendant texted him just 20 minutes before his death.
Jesse Baird, 26, and Mr Davies, 29, had spent the night before their alleged murder partying at the Beresford Hotel club in Surry Hills with friends before returning to the ex’s $1.5 million rented terrace house Channel 10 roving reporter in Paddington (the couple are pictured together)
One of Mr Davies’ close friends, Dean Bailey (pictured, right) has revealed that the Qantas flight attendant messaged him just 20 minutes before his death
“We used to send each other funny Instagram memes back and forth and so I received one at 9:18 a.m. the morning of the incident, and it was a funny Instagram meme, followed by a crying laughing emoji, which was kind of is what Luke was like,” close friend Dean Bailey told Sunrise.
“You could imagine him physically laughing as he sent that message.
“To know that within thirty minutes of that, things took a turn for the worse and the unimaginable happened, it’s heartbreaking to think what happened with that message he sent me and what happened next in the thirty minutes that followed.”
Human remains of Mr Davies and Mr Baird were discovered on Tuesday afternoon, packed in surf bags and buried in a lonely forest grave.
Their alleged killer is said to have hired a white rental van to transport their bodies to a remote farm in Bungonia, about 180km south-west of Sydney.
A sea of flowers have been left at the house where police allege TV presenter Jesse Baird and his air hostess partner Luke Davies were murdered (pictured)
Beau Lamarre-Condon (photo) has been charged with two counts of murder
It is alleged he then returned to the site to move the bodies to another location in Bungonia, about a 20-minute drive away.
Mr Bailey said he had not “come to terms” with his friend’s death.
‘I wake up expecting to get a message from Luke saying, “Hi, I’m coming to Brisbane this weekend, what are we doing?” It’s heartbreaking to know that message will never come,” Bailey said.
Devastated relatives of Jesse Baird visited the bushland graves of the Channel 10 presenter and Mr Davies on Tuesday evening.
About 110 miles away on the same evening, shattered friends of Mr Baird and Mr Davies gathered on Bronte Beach for a vigil.
Lamarre-Condon is currently at Silverwater Correctional Complex, in Sydney’s west.
His case is in court.