Former TV reporter, partner missing a week after allegedly being killed by police officer in "crime of passion"

Police divers were searching inland waterways on Monday for the bodies of a missing couple who were allegedly shot dead in Sydney a week earlier by a jilted police-officer lover with his service pistol.

Police allege former television reporter Jesse Baird, 26, and his flight attendant partner Luke Davies, 29, were shot dead in Baird's shared house in the inner-Sydney suburb of Paddington on Monday last week, New South Wales Police Force Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said. Neighbors reported hearing one or more gunshots.

Senior-Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon was charged on Friday with the murders of both. He has not entered a plea or applied for release on bail.