The latest search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont has been called off after police failed to find any new evidence.
Police began a renewed search of his family’s remote Oak Park Station homestead in South Australia this morning.
There had been hopes that recent heavy rainfall in the area could help reveal new evidence.
“The recent significant weather event with the rain up there is leading to assessing what other new opportunities might exist in relation to searching, but the current searching was planned,” Acting Officer in Charge of Major Crime Andrew Macrae told reporters yesterday.
Police searched several areas but did not find any evidence and called off the operation late this afternoon.
They have not ruled out more searches of the area in the coming weeks.
The four-year-old was last seen playing on a dirt mound at Oak Park Station around 5pm on September 27.
Nearly six months later, his whereabouts are still unknown.
No evidence of Gus has been uncovered despite extensive searches of the property, which Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke said has been the “largest and most intensive” missing person search ever undertaken by SA Police.
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