He said investigating the disappearance remained a \u201ctop priority\u201d for the force, confirming officers from a specially formed taskforce would be returning to the family station at a later date.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe taskforce, which comprises over a dozen people, detectives, forensic specialists, will clearly be looking at any opportunity to provide closure to Gus\u2019 mum and dad,\u201d Stevens said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will be going back to the property. I can\u2019t say when, I can\u2019t say what the reasons will be, that\u2019s entirely up to the taskforce, but the work is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n
He reiterated that investigators had \u201call but ruled out Gus having wandered off\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has not been one single piece of evidence that we have located during the searching exercise, the most extensive search, arguably, in the history of South Australia, that has given us any indication that he did wander off,\u201d Stevens said.<\/p>\n
Last month, the boy\u2019s grandmother, Josie Murray, was charged with unrelated firearms offences after a search of the station.<\/p>\n
And last week his parents released previously unseen photographs and footage<\/a> of the boy in the hope of sparking fresh information from the public.<\/p>\n In an emotional statement, they described how their lives had been \u201cshattered\u201d and that \u201cevery moment without him is unbearable\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t imagine what the family is going through, as they say, this must be their darkest days,\u201d Stevens said.<\/p>\n Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said investigating the disappearance remained a \u201ctop priority\u201d for the force, confirming officers from a specially formed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47179,1135,4282,15117,23552,170047,57026,42,121444,57027,6501,43,5006,1118,675,35993,5659,1240,40,38,41,39,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-312702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-4yearold","9":"tag-australian","10":"tag-boss","11":"tag-boy","12":"tag-claimed","13":"tag-cooperating","14":"tag-gus","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-investigators","17":"tag-lamont","18":"tag-missing","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-not","21":"tag-of","22":"tag-police","23":"tag-relatives","24":"tag-say","25":"tag-south","26":"tag-top-news","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topnews","29":"tag-topstories","30":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}