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    Gus Lamont's grandparents 'absolutely devastated' by major crime declaration
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    Gus Lamont’s grandparents ‘absolutely devastated’ by major crime declaration

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    2. msfinch87 on

      So police have indicated that one person is under suspicion, but both grandparents have sought independent representation.

      I think it was a terrible police misstep to make the statement they did. If neither of them is involved, which is completely plausible because people can be inconsistent at the best of times, police now justifiably uncooperative possible witnesses with information. If one or even both of them is involved the likelihood of figuring that out just diminished substantially.

      I don’t even understand making the statement. There was nobody else to come forward and all it was going to accomplish was people clamming up. If they have enough to charge someone, which I doubt at this point, then they should have just done that.

    3. PMFSCV on

      Its poorly written, I went through some of her other articles and they are full of absolute clangers.

      “As the world watches on, a conclusion to the case could be sooner rather than later”

    4. planetarybum on

      This is my take; the police have done an extremely thorough search of the property and surrounding areas and they are satisfied that Gus didn’t just wander off.

      They have also ruled out abuction by an outsider.

      So they have to pursue the third option that someone living on the property is involved. For unknown reasons they have excluded both parents.

      I think they didn’t have enough evidence to legally execute a forensic search of the home(s) without consent of the owner.

      So they couldn’t legally proceed with more intensive searches until they could provide a good reason.

      Now that they have ruled out all the other possibilities, they have reason to focus on the occupants more closely.

      Now, one or both grandparents aren’t co-operating. It looks like one of them is a stubborn old bugger so it could just be a matter of being obstinate or they could have good reasons, but we won’t know until they come up with more evidence.

      ETA: Forensic searches might involve significant damage to the property? I dunno.

    5. GlitteringBrain2021 on

      Pasted below from several other articles, specifies one has a criminal lawyer and the other has a defence lawyer. I don’t know too much about law, but isn’t a defence lawyer the one you would get if you are the accused?
      “Gus’s grandparent Josie Murray has reportedly hired top Adelaide criminal lawyer Andrew Ey, while his grandmother Shannon Murray has booked prominent defence lawyer Casey Isaacs, also from Adelaide.”

    6. TizzyBumblefluff on

      This whole thing has been so fishy to me. The way the family have behaved, despite almost untold resources to help and so on.

    7. Hot-Employment5474 on

      Hopefully the truth will come out soon, I was reading on Friday in a statement that said he was either murdered or an accident happened and someone is trying to cover it up.

    8. Infinite_Pudding5058 on

      I worry this could be like the William Tyrrell case where they’ve named the foster mother as a suspect and then nothing happened.

    9. EnvironmentalGarden7 on

      The fact the parents never made an appeal I always thought was strange but they are in the middle of nowhere. Smack of William Tyrrell really, grandmother there was suspected as well.

    12. RaeseneAndu on

      The Advertiser is leaving no doubt about which member of the family they believe to be the prime suspect.