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Gus Lamont investigation resumes following ‘suspect’ bombshell · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Police have returned to the rural
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  Speaker 1: property where four year old Gus Lamont vanished several months ago.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives from the South Australian Police Task Force assembled to
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  Speaker 1: investigate the boy's disappearance will stay at Oak Park station
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  Speaker 1: for at least two days. Gus was last seen playing
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  Speaker 1: outside on the station around five pm on September twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: In early February, police said they had identified a person
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  Speaker 1: of interest who they said was known to Gus. They
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  Speaker 1: also said they were treating his suspected death as a
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  Speaker 1: major crime. Police said then that the person of interest
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  Speaker 1: had withdrawn their cooperation with the investigation, and stressed Gus's
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  Speaker 1: parents aren't suspects. The four year old's grandparents, Josie and
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  Speaker 1: Shannon Murray, separately secured legal representation and jointly released a
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  Speaker 1: statement saying they were absolutely devastated by the police's statement.
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  Speaker 1: No charges have been laid. Alleged Bondai killer Navid Akram
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  Speaker 1: made his first appearance in court since December fourteenth. Fifteen people,
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  Speaker 1: including a child, were killed in the attack when Navid
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  Speaker 1: and his father, fifty year old Sajid Akram, allegedly opened
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  Speaker 1: fire on a Hunnaker festival at Bondai Beach. Sajid Akram
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  Speaker 1: was killed by police at the scene and Navid Akram
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  Speaker 1: was injured. On Monday, Navid Akram briefly appeared at the
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  Speaker 1: Downing Center Local Court in Sydney via video link. He's
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  Speaker 1: being held at Goldban's Supermax prison and was wearing prison greens.
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  Speaker 1: The matter will return to court on March eighth. Navid
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  Speaker 1: Akram's lawyer, ben Archboldt, who's been assigned to the case
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  Speaker 1: by the taxpayer funded Legal Aid Service, answered questions outside courting.
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  Speaker 2: The more said that himself been on conversations to see
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  Speaker 2: with this stage and what his reasons for at the.
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  Speaker 1: End of the night, that's not my Gordan, Australia's competition
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  Speaker 1: watchdog says supermarket chain Coals wanted shoppers to believe its
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  Speaker 1: down Down price promotion was lowering the cost of living,
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  Speaker 1: even though it wasn't. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
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  Speaker 1: opened its case in the Federal Court in Melbourne on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: its suing Coals for allegedly misleading customers Behabc told the
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  Speaker 1: court Coals artificially lifted prices, then lowered them to pretend
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  Speaker 1: they were real discounts. Cole says they were legitimate price
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  Speaker 1: cuts on products whose real costs had risen dramatically. Check
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  Speaker 1: out those stories live right now at the Australian dot
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  Speaker 1: Com dot u, and come back to the front first
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  Speaker 1: thing in the morning for a close look at a
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  Speaker 1: big twist in the case of Ben Roberts Smith