Overview

• Assistant Commissioner Ian Parrott said the weeklong ground effort will be reduced, citing exhaustive searches that failed to locate the four-year-old.
• A single child-sized footprint found about 500m from the homestead remains the only clue, but police now caution it may be old after no other tracks were discovered.
• Australian Defence Force personnel were stood down as the large multi-agency operation that deployed aircraft, dogs, mounted units and divers is refocused.
• Police say there is no evidence of abduction and continue to work on the premise Gus likely wandered from the front yard of the remote Oak Park property.
• Gus’s family released a photo and a statement asking for privacy, and police urged anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers as inquiries continue.