Police further search for missing Gus

Lamont

March 2026 The latest search at the remote property where four-year-old Gus Lamont vanished has concluded without police finding evidence. A cadaver dog was brought from interstate to assist in last week’s renewed search for the boy, who was last seen by his grandmother playing at the Oak Park Station homestead in South Australia’s Mid North on September 27. The search covered numerous buildings and structures at the station and at several locations adjoining the property. Officers inspected an outhouse with fresh cement and a water tank at a neighbouring property. “Unfortunately, no evidence was located during the intensive searches.” SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said there was likely to be a further search of the area in coming weeks. “Gus went missing on September 27 and we still don’t have clarity as to exactly where Gus might be,” he said. “We didn’t simply focus on the search of a missing child on the property,” he said. “We were looking at other possibilities as well. That has been the focus of our investigation from the outset of the notification of Gus’s disappearance.” On February 5, police declared Gus’s disappearance a major crime and said someone living at the remote station was a suspect in the case and his likely death. They confirmed the boy’s grandparents, his mother and his younger brother were at the property at the time he disappeared but emphasised his parents were not suspects. Gus’s grandparents Josie and Shannon Murray released a brief statement via their lawyers saying they were “absolutely devastated” by the police statements. Josie Murray was arrested and charged with unrelated firearms offences last week. The 75-year-old will appear in the Peterborough Magistrates Court on May 6. Investigators searched the station homestead on January 14 and 15, seizing items including a vehicle, a motorcycle and electronic devices for forensic testing.

Greek Tribune Adelaide, South Australia