Once the court organised one of the victim’s families to dial in via audiovisual link,a Legal Aid solicitor said she was now appearing in the matter. Seeking a two-week adjournment,she said her team had recently received the majority of the brief of evidence,which included two USBs and external hard drives.

Farnan pressed the solicitor on the need for an adjournment. She responded that a forensic psychiatrist indicated they could assess Lamarre-Condon early next year.

Crown prosecutor Brendan Donnelly said the defence team initially wanted to adjourn the case until March,which the Crown opposed and asked for further evidence as to why a psychiatrist was not available earlier.

Farnan said it was regrettable that legal representation had changed at this stage of proceedings,telling the Legal Aid lawyer she was “surely aware this matter needs to be moved along”.

In August,Lamarre-Condon’s initial two murder charges were formally replaced with two domestic violence murder charges.

A fresh count of aggravated breaking and entering with intent to commit a serious indictable offence was also formalised.

Police allegeLamarre-Condon broke into Baird’s Brown Street share house six months before the alleged killings,intending to commit the serious indictable offence of “stalking Jesse Baird”.

Baird allegedly complained to friends about seeing a shadowy figure at the foot of his bed in the months before his death.

Lamarre-Condon is accused of killing Baird because he was obsessed with him and shooting Davies as collateral damage for being at the house at the time.

Lamarre-Condon was fired from the NSW Police Force in March.

He has not pleaded to the charges and will next face court on November 19.