Fresh development in search for missing boy Gus
SA Police are heading back to a remote South Australian property tomorrow to search for a four-year-old boy, missing for two months.
Source: Network Ten
Police will launch a fresh search for four-year-old Gus Lamont at the remote South Australian property where he vanished two months ago.
The search on Tuesday will focus on six mine shafts in the area of Oak Park Station, which is about 40 kilometres south of Yunta in South Australia’s mid-north.
On Monday, SA Police said its search team was previously been unaware of the shafts.
They are uncovered and unfenced and are 5½-12 kilometres from the family homestead where Gus was last seen on September 27. They are in areas not previously examined during the extensive searches for the missing boy.
It is nearly two months since Gus was last seen at his family home. Photo: SA Police
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“We are determined to explore every avenue in an effort to locate Gus Lamont and provide some closure for his family,” SA Police Deputy Commissioner Linda Williams said.
“These searches will either locate evidence or eliminate these locations from further investigation by the taskforce.”
This most recent search is expected to take three days.
The four-year-old was last seen by his grandmother, playing at the Oak Park homestead about 5pm on Saturday, September 27. When she checked him about half an hour later, he had gone.
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Two previous search operations – involving hundreds of people, including police officers, army personnel, trackers and local property owners – have failed to turn up any evidence of the four-year-old.
Police said the most recent ground search extended to 5½ kilometres from the homestead, equal to about 95 square kilometres searched on foot, police said.
This was in addition to the original search area, which involved the mounted operations unit and a police helicopter. It was estimated to have covered 470 square kilometres.
On November 1, police drained a dam on the Oak Park property of about 3.2 million litres of water but found nothing of significans.
They have also done further aerial imaging within a 10-kilometres radius of the homestead, which was expected to take weeks to complete.
SA Police have stressed their investigations have not found “any evidence of foul play”.
“The family of Gus have continued to co-operate fully with police and are being supported by a victim contact officer,” they said.
