Desperate Search for Little Gus: Cops Return to Remote Property for FOURTH Time in Hunt for Missing Four-Year-Old
- South Australia Police vow to find Gus Lamont, who vanished from his family’s remote property on September 27
- Hundreds of police officers, SES volunteers, and Australian Army personnel have combed 60,000ha of rugged terrain but found no new leads
- Police Commissioner Grant Stevens reaffirms commitment to finding Gus, saying “we will be going back to the property to conduct further searches”
In a desperate bid to find missing four-year-old August “Gus” Lamont, South Australia Police are returning to the remote property where he vanished for the fourth time. The search for the little boy has entered its second month, with no signs of him since he disappeared on September 27.
Police Commissioner Grant Stevens has reaffirmed the force’s commitment to finding Gus, saying “we will be going back to the property to conduct further searches based on further analysis of data and further advice.” Stevens added, “we are continuing to go back because we are still committed to recovering Gus, for the family and so everybody has some sense of closure in relation to exactly what’s occurred up at Yunta.”
Gus was last seen playing on a dirt mound near a hill while his grandmother watched his younger brother, Ronnie, on the family’s Oak Park Station near Yunta, in South Australia’s remote Mid North. When his grandmother went to bring him inside 30 minutes later, he was gone. The only clue uncovered so far is a single footprint found on September 30, roughly 500m from where Gus was last seen.
Despite one of the largest search operations in South Australian history, Gus remains missing. Hundreds of police officers, SES volunteers, and Australian Army personnel have combed more than 60,000ha of rugged terrain, assisted by drones and infrared technology, but no new leads have emerged.
Stevens explained, “we have used these highly technical drones that collect data from the landscape, but that data has to be analysed through an IT system.” He added, “I would expect that we will be deploying our investigators and our search experts up there as we process information that we’ve collected on previous visits.”
Police have drained a dam on the property, with more than 3.2 million litres of water pumped out at a rate of 15,000 litres per minute. Divers also searched both that dam and a holding dam, clearing weed beds and combing the area, but found nothing of significance.
Gus is described as having long curly blond hair and was wearing a blue long-sleeved Minions T-shirt, a grey sun hat, and boots when he went missing. Anyone with any information is urged to contact police.