Police have scaled back the search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont and handed the investigation to their Missing Persons Unit after failing to find any trace of him.
August 'Gus' Lamont vanished last Saturday afternoon from his grandparents' remote homestead, about 40 kilometres south of Yunta, north-east of Adelaide.
Hours after a photo of Gus was released by the family, South Australian Assistant Police Commissioner Ian Parrott made the difficult call on Friday with the sad admission that it's unlikely Gus will be found alive.
Despite a massive search effort—one of the biggest in the state's history—police have no significant clues regarding Gus's whereabouts, apart from a footprint located 500m from the property.
'While we've all been hoping for a miracle, that miracle was not eventuated,' Commissioner Parrott said.
