They find the bodies of the former TV presenter and her boyfriend murdered by a police officer in Australia

Agencies Sydney

Sydney

Updated Tuesday, February 27, 2024-08:11

• Australia They search for the bodies of a well-known former TV presenter and her boyfriend, murdered by a police officer from an elite commando

The Australian Police said this Tuesday that they have found the bodies of former TV presenter

Jesse Baird

and her boyfriend

Luke Davis

, allegedly murdered last week by a police officer in the southeast of the country.

New South Wales State Police Commissioner

Karen Webb

said in a press conference that the discovery occurred at a property in the town of

Bungonia

, about 185 kilometers southwest of Sydney.

"We are very sure we have located Luke and Jesse," the commissioner said in Sydney, reporting that the Police have already notified the couple's relatives of the discovery and will transport them to the crime scene for the formal recognition of the bodies.

Webb also ruled out that these are murders motivated by

"homosexual hatred"

since they are considered to be linked to "domestic violence."

The discovery of the bodies in Bungonia, where another property was searched a day earlier, comes after intense searches in the Royal National Park and in a sports field in the

Cronulla neighborhood

, both places more than 26 kilometers north of Sydney.

As part of the investigations into this crime that has shocked Australia, authorities charged police officer

Beau Lamarre

, 28, who is believed to have been Baird's partner, with two counts of murder last Friday after he turned himself in. a Sydney police station.

Police believe that Lamarre killed Baird and Davis with a firearm on February 19 at the home of the former presenter, one of the popular faces of the Australian channel

Network 10

, in the suburb of Paddington, east of Sydney.

Subsequently, the accused rented a white van, which has been seized, to dispose of the bodies of the couple, whose belongings were found on Monday last week in a rubbish container in

Cronulla

, in the south of Sydney.

The murder of Baird and Davis has caused great discomfort in the LGTBI community and has motivated the organizers of the Mardi Gras parade to celebrate sexual diversity on Saturday night to ask the New South Wales Police to desist from participating with their floats at this event.

Webb acknowledged in a statement the media attention of this case and apologized for the poor investigation of crimes against the LGTBI community between 1970 and 2010.

Police began investigating last Wednesday the disappearance of Baird, 26, and Davis, a 29-year-old flight attendant for the

Qantas airline

, after some of their belongings were found that day in a garbage container in the neighborhood of Cronulla, south of Sydney.