<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A pair of children's underwear believed to be Sharon Granites' and a shirt worn by her suspected abductor have been found, police have revealed, as the search for the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/alice-springs" rel="" target="" title="Alice Springs"><span>Alice Springs</span></a><span> girl grows increasingly desperate.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The five-year-old was put to bed some time before 11pm at the house on Marshall Court where she and her mother had been visiting.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She was last seen nearby holding hands with Jefferson Lewis at 11.30pm and police believe he led the little girl away from the camp.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/finance/inflation-data-australia-march-2026-quarter-interest-rate-implications/575bc24a-ead7-4abd-a49c-b9c9753af93c" rel="" target="" title="Inflation surges to three-year high as borrowers stare down rate hike"><strong><span>Inflation surges to three-year high as borrowers stare down rate hike</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Lewis had been released from jail just six days earlier, charged for violent offences including assault and domestic violence.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Police found the items of clothing on the riverbank at the back of the Old Timers Camp where Sharon was last seen on Sunday, but have only just revealed their findings.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/northern-territory" rel="" target="" title="Northern Territory"><span>Northern Territory</span></a><span> Assistant Police Commissioner Peter Malley said the shirt found by police is Lewis' "distinctive" yellow and black shirt captured on police bodycam footage when officers visited the Old Timers Camp earlier on Saturday for an unrelated matter.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/sharon-granites-missing-from-alice-springs-childrens-underwear-jefferson-lewis-shirt-found-police-say/c5d371ed-a7de-4e1a-b3b8-bd55cfb0e172" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A doona cover was also found alongside the clothing.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Around 100 community volunteers have now joined in the hunt for the little girl, now in its fourth day.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Malley said no other confirmed sightings or traces of either Sharon or Jefferson Lewis have been found since Sunday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This man doesn't have a telephone, he doesn't have a bank account, he doesn't have a car," Malley said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We are going back to 1930s policing without that digital footprint... we are knocking on doors, we are going through houses.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It is old-style policing and it is a hard slog."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>More to 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