Overview
- Four-year-old Gus Lamont was last seen on September 27 at Oak Park Station in Yunta, South Australia, and police have returned to the property for an 11th search after recent heavy rain.
- Taskforce Horizon detectives have confirmed one grandparent remains a suspect in the disappearance while Gus’s parents are not considered suspects.
- Officers say they have found no evidence of stranger abduction and have tracked down hundreds of people within a 100-kilometre radius as they discount hundreds of sighting reports from across Australia and overseas.
- Investigators plan to widen coverage using a plane and drones and continue targeted interviews and tracing of people who were in the area around the time Gus vanished.
- Gus’s family continue to face uncertainty as the probe, described as one of the largest missing-person operations in the state, presses on and police warn that the longer the case remains unresolved the lower the chance of a positive recovery.