Karen Webb doubles down on Beau Lamarre-Condon that angered Jesse Baird’s partner – as calls for her resignation mount

The NSW Police Commissioner has doubled down on saying she is “grateful” to have charged double murderer Beau Lamarre-Condon with assisting police.

Police Chief Karen Webb came under fire last night from Mitch Swanson, a close friend of Jesse Baird, after announcing that police had found the remains of Baird and Luke Davies in surfboard bags at a property in remote Bungonia, NSW Southern Tablelands.

In an interview with the Today Show on Wednesday morning, Commissioner Webb doubled down on her comments, telling host Sarah Abo that it was the families of the alleged victims who were grateful their remains had been found.

It comes as Commissioner Webb dismissed criticism of her leadership with a quote from Taylor Swift, saying ‘haters love to hate’, and caused uproar by describing the incident as a so-called ‘crime of passion’.

Sarah Abo asked Webb about the controversy over her handling of the alleged double murder in a week full of apparent blunders by the top cop

Abo told Commissioner Webb, “Now you’ve personally come under fire, Commissioner, for some of the language you’ve used – that press conference yesterday felt a little… all over the place in a way.

‘As you have said before, the (alleged) ‘crime of passion’ (comment) is something you regret. Yesterday you said that you were very grateful to the suspect. It’s hard, isn’t it, you have to be in front of the cameras, right?’

Karen Webb commented: ‘I think the comment about being grateful is being grateful that the family now knows, and was able to know yesterday, where their loved ones were.

“If that information didn’t come forward, we would still be searching. So we’re grateful that the information emerged in a way that allowed investigators to act.

“And we were able to tell the families and get the families to their loved ones.”

When asked if she felt comfortable in her role when dealing with the media, Ms. Webb replied: “Of course.”

The latest interview comes in a week where Sunrise’s Natalie Barr lost out at Webb in a trainwreck interview over the top cop’s “haters” comment.

Jesse Baird’s friend Mitch Swanson (pictured, left, with Baird) criticized Commissioner Webb’s use of the word “grateful”

The bodies of Luke Davies (left) and Jesse Baird (right) were discovered on Tuesday

The commissioner then bizarrely refused to leave the Sunrise studios for ten minutes because she feared being ambushed by TV cameras outside.

It also comes as insiders have claimed to Daily Mail Australia that while Webb was ‘a very nice person’, she ‘just doesn’t cut it for being a police commissioner’ – and a petition has been launched calls on her to resign.

Mitch Swanson, who was close friends with Baird, was outraged to hear Ms Webb’s apparently ill-considered choice of words, describing it as “grateful.”

“Say how THANKFUL they are for it [Lamarre-Condon] because (allegedly) revealing information is just another blow to his family and friends,” Swanson wrote to friends.

In several online comments (one pictured), Swanson said Baird’s loved ones are not “grateful” to his alleged killer and described the “handling of this” by police as an “absolute train wreck.”

‘The handling by the police is an absolute train wreck.’

Mr Swanson later shared another scathing review of Commissioner Webb’s wording on his Instagram Story.

‘Heartbroken again. The boys have been found,” he said.

“We are in no way ‘grateful’ that the suspect helped police find the bodies of our dear friends.

“What a damn thing to say!”

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Mr Swanson and NSW Police for further comment.