Lamarre-Condon is shown his screenshots of Baird’s Instagram stories in May 2023, after their first break-up. He denied he was stalking the TV presenter online and in person in May and June that year.
“Jesse and I had an amicable first break-up,” he said. “I may have been looking online … I definitely wasn’t stalking him but I was looking online. That’s not stalking.”
He said that he entered the email address of a man Baird had been seeing into the dating app Grindr “not to impersonate him” but to check if “that user is already taken, meaning they have an active account”.
“I remember doing something like that to check if [the man] had an active Grindr account,” he said. He told the court that this would be an indication that Baird and the man “weren’t exclusive”.
“If you’re exclusive with someone you’re not on an app looking for sex,” he said.
Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield, SC, put to him that a person might have an account but not be using it. He agreed this was a possibility and denied stalking the man.
He denied making a fake Grindr account for Baird.
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