The father of missing four-year-old August ‘Gus’ Lamont has been seen publicly for the first time since the toddler disappeared in the South Australian outback.
The little boy vanished almost two weeks ago after playing in the yard of remote Oak Park homestead in the harsh South Australian outback, 300km north of Adelaide.
Huge air and land searches have failed to find any trace of him apart from a single footprint in the desert scrub since he disappeared on the evening of September 27.
Police have now given up all hope of finding him alive and said last week the search had now been scaled back and moved into recovery mode as they switched focus to finding his body.
Gus is understood to have been living at his grandparents’ homestead with his mother Jess and his one-year-old brother Ronnie.
Gus’s father, Joshua Lamont, lives two hours’ drive away, 100km to the west in Belalie North, near Jamestown.
The Daily Mail has been told that while Josh and Jess remained a couple, he does not live on the station because of family clashes with Jess’s transgender parent, Josie.
A source close to the devastated father said he is furious that his little boy went missing from Oak Park.
Joshua Lamont, the father of missing four-year-old August ‘Gus’ Lamont, has been seen publicly for the first time after the toddler disappeared in the South Australian outback
Gus is pictured. His father lives two hours’ drive away, 100km to the west in Belalie North, near Jamestown
Nearly two weeks after little Gus vanished from his family’s remote Oak Park homestead, 300km north of Adelaide, hope and heartbreak still grip the community. The five-year-old disappeared while playing outside, sparking an exhaustive search involving police, SES, and trackers. His father, former country singer Josh Lamont, joined night searches but is now staying with relatives in Adelaide.
Despite scouring vast, open land and covering over 1,200km, rescuers found no trace—only a single footprint now deemed inconclusive. Locals remain baffled. Gus’s grandparent, Josie Murray, insists the family hasn’t lost hope, saying softly, “We’re still looking for him.”
