Gus Lamont: Police confirm two members of missing 4yo’s family are not cooperating
Police were asked if there are now multiple suspects in the investigation into the disappearance of the four-year-old.
Police have confirmed that at least two members of Gus Lamont’s family are not cooperating with investigators but are declining to comment on the number of suspects that are under scrutiny.
The four-year-old’s disappearance from his family’s South Australian outback property in September 2025 prompted a wide scale search that went on for months before police confirmed they suspected the boy was victim of a “major crime”.
In early February, police said one person had withdrawn their co-operation - and confirmed that person was a suspect in the four-year-old’s disappearance.
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“We can confirm that two family members are only communicating via their legal representatives,” a police spokesperson said.
This comes after South Australia’s Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said on Wednesday that “members” of Gus’ family were “not cooperating” with investigators.
“As far as I’m aware, it’s status quo, from the most recent reports, we are still working with Gus’ mum and dad and there are other members of the family who are no longer cooperating,” he told ABC Radio Adelaide.
Police continue to stress that the suspect is neither of Gus’ parents, but is someone who lives on the property.
A police spokesperson who was asked whether there are any further suspects said that they were unable to make any further comment.
The Nightly understands that Andrew Ey, of Mangan Ey and Associates, is acting for Gus’ grandmother Josie Murray while Casey Isaacs, of Caldicott + Isaacs Lawyers, is acting for his other grandmother, Shannon Murray.
In early February, the lawyers released a joint statement on their clients’ behalf.
“We are absolutely devastated by the media release of SAPOL Major Crime,” the grandparents said.
“The family has cooperated fully with the investigation and want nothing more than to find Gus and reunite him with his mum and dad.”
Little Gus was last seen on September 27 last year on Oak Park Station, his family’s Yunta property.
Police were told that at 5.30pm when his grandmother tried to call him inside, the boy had vanished.
Police had three main theories about little Gus’ disappearance — two of which they confirmed had since been ruled out.
The first theory relied on Gus still being alive, which police confirmed on Thursday has been eliminated.
On February 5, detective superintendent Darren Fielke confirmed that investigators “don’t believe, now, that Gus is alive”.
“This is one of three investigation options that have been explored by the members attached to Taskforce Horizon,” he said.
“The other two investigation options are focused on Gus being abducted (by an unknown person) from Oak Park Station, or whether someone known to him was involved in his disappearance and suspected death.”
In the weeks following his disappearance, a 94 sq km radius around the Oak Park Station property was scoured by all available emergency services, SES, the ADF, and an army of volunteers in addition to aerial searches conducted by drones and helicopters.
