Police again search Oak Park Station for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont

Record rainfall in South Australia could aid police in the search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont, a senior police officer has revealed.

Officers returned to Oak Park Station near Yunta in the state’s north on Wednesday, and a police spokesman announced the team would be “searching various areas of the property for evidence in the case.”

Gus was last seen at his family’s property on September 27 around 5 p.m.

His disappearance triggered a massive search effort that saw dozens of police, rescue workers and volunteers scouring the countryside.

The search for Gus is being investigated as a major crime.

With above-average rainfall in South Australia in the last two weeks, police say wet weather may present new opportunities in search efforts.

Detective Inspector Andrew Macrae said: “The recent significant weather event involving rain is leading to consideration of what other new opportunities may be available in relation to the search, although the current search was planned.”

Record rainfall was recorded in some parts of the state, including near the station where Gus was last seen in Yunta.

Inspector Macrae did not comment further on what police hoped to find due to the “ongoing investigation”.

Police announced last month that they had identified a suspect who was known to the boy but was not one of Gus’ parents.

South Australian Police Commissioner Grant Stevens told ABC Radio Adelaide earlier this month that two of Gus’ relatives were “unco-operative” with investigators.

“We are still working with Gus’s mother and father, and there are other members of the family who are no longer cooperative,” he said.

“We will be back on the property, I can’t say when, I can’t say what the reasons will be, it’s all up to the task force, but the work is ongoing.”

Mr. Stevens said investigators had ruled out the possibility that Gus had wandered off.

“During what was arguably the most extensive search in the history of South Australia, we found not a single piece of evidence that gave us any indication that he had disappeared,” Mr Stevens said.

In an impassioned public appeal last month, Gus’s parents said his disappearance was “unbearable.”

“We stand together in our grief and in our search for answers about what happened to our little boy, Gus, who meant everything to us,” they said in a statement.

“If anyone knows what happened, we would appeal to that person, or anyone who may have seen or heard anything, to come forward.

“Even the smallest detail can give us the answers we desperately need.

“We also want to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who participated in the search for Gus.”

Along with the statement, they also released unseen footage and video of Gus in the hope that it will force anyone with new information to come forward.

Gus’s grandparents, Josie and Shannon Murray, also released a statement through their lawyers, saying they were devastated that Gus’s disappearance was considered a major crime.

“The family has cooperated fully with the investigation and wishes nothing more than to find Gus and reunite him with his mother and father,” the statement said.

Ms Murray was charged with unrelated firearms offenses following a search of the station last month.