Police give devastating update on boy, 4, who vanished from grandparents’
August ‘Gus’ Lamont, from Australia, vanished without a trace almost a week ago. Police have issued a major update into the case as they scale back the search for the missing four year old
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August Lamont went missing from his grandparents’ home(Image: South Australia Police)
PoliceĀ searching for a four-year-old boy have issued a devastating update afte he vanished from his grandparents homestead.
August ‘Gus’ LamontĀ disappearedĀ from the remote location almost a week ago. The little boy, who has blonde curly hair and brown eyes, went missing on Saturday afternoon. Police launched a huge search effort, considered to be one of the biggest in the state’s history, but sadly found no clues.
Officers were only able to locate one footprint 500m from the property in Yunta, north-east of Adelaide,Ā Australia. Now, police have issued an update, stating that if Gus is found, he probably won’t be alive. Officials have now scaled back the search and have passed the investigation over to theirĀ Missing PersonsĀ Unit.
South Australian Assistant Police Commissioner Ian Parrott said: “‘While we’ve all been hoping for a miracle, that miracle was not eventuated. And in the last 48 hours, despite the professional advice it being unlikely that Gus would have survived, we have maintained and in fact increased the effort to try and locate him and bring him back to his family.
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A huge search was underway for the four-year-old(Image: South Australia Police)
“We’re confident that we’ve done absolutely everything we can to locate Gus within the search area, but despite our best efforts, we have not been able to locate him, and unfortunately, we are now having to scale back this search for Gus.
“The investigation will now be managed by the Missing Persons Investigation Section. This is where all long term cases such as this are managed and investigated and is standard practice. We will now continue to pursue ongoing lines of inquiry, and we will not rest until we can try and find the answer to why Gus has gone missing, and hopefully, for the family, return him to them.”
