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Police Say Two Relatives Have Stopped Cooperating in Gus Lamont Case

Investigators plan a return to Oak Park station to continue work on the major-crime inquiry.

Overview

  • South Australia Police confirmed two family members are now only communicating through their lawyers, while detectives continue to work with Gus’s parents.
  • Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said the case remains a top priority and Taskforce Horizon will go back to the property, with timing not disclosed.
  • The disappearance was declared a major crime in early February, when police said a resident who withdrew cooperation was considered a suspect and not either parent.
  • Investigators have all but ruled out that Gus wandered off after extensive multi-agency searches, with a single footprint about 500 metres from the homestead the only confirmed clue.
  • Gus’s parents recently released new images and video in a public appeal for information, and grandmother Josie Murray was charged last month with unrelated firearms offences.