Jesse Baird and Luke Davies disappearance: police raid Balmain home amid search for TV presenter and partner

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Police have raided a home in the Sydney suburb of Balmain after announcing they were searching for a third person potentially linked to the disappearance of the former Channel Ten presenter Jesse Baird and his Qantas flight attendant partner, Luke Davies.

Baird, 26 and now an AFL goal umpire, and Davies, 29, vanished from Sydney’s east on Monday and have not been seen since.

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