Overview
- Police charged Coleen Lamarre, 63, with perverting the course of justice over an alleged bid to sway a key witness in her son's case.
- She was arrested in Balmain and later refused bail at her first court appearance, leaving her in custody on remand.
- Her lawyer said she plans a bail bid at the Downing Centre as early as next Tuesday, with another court date listed for May 14.
- Her son, former NSW officer Beau Lamarre-Condon, has pleaded not guilty to killing Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, which police say involved his service pistol and the dumping of their bodies at Bungonia.
- Prosecutors are preparing a large trial that could call hundreds of witnesses, with Lamarre-Condon next due in court on May 29 and a trial slated to start in September.