A footprint initially thought to be that of missing four-year-old August ‘Gus’ Lamont has been ruled out by police as they further scale back their massive search in South Australia’s unforgiving outback.

Gus was last seen by his grandmother in a blue Minions shirt playing outside on a mound of dirt at his family’s Oak Park Station homestead before he vanished around 5-5.30pm on Saturday, 27 September.

The alarm was raised and what ensued was “one of the largest, most intensive and most protracted searches ever undertaken” by South Australian Police, according to Assistant Commissioner Ian Parrott.

A small footprint found last Tuesday, just 500m from where Gus was last seen, sparked hope he might be found.

At the time, Superintendent Mark Syrus said authorities were “buoyed” by the fin

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