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Four-year-old Gus Lamont’s grandmother watched him playing freely in a small sandpit near his South Australia two Saturdays ago.

Half an hour later, when she called him in for dinner, the blonde, wavey-haired boy had vanished.

Police have now scaled back the huge search operation for August, one of the largest the area has seen in recent years with hundreds of police officers, soldiers, sniffer dogs, drones and he

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