Sydney musician Dennis Dowlut hospitalised after missing kids found

A father and chart-topping musician who disappeared with his children from their home in Sydney’s east has been hospitalised after the trio were found early today.

ARIA-nominated musician Dennis Dowlut has been hospitalised after he disappeared with his two young children in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Police issued an amber alert after dance music artist Dowlut allegedly took his young children Bowie, four, and Basten, 10, from their Darling Point home about 2:30am on Thursday.

The trio were later found by police in Sydney’s southwest after a member of the public saw them walking towards Panania Railway Station and called police.

Mr Dowlut was taken to hospital for assessment and his children were reunited with family this morning. No charges have been laid.

Johnny Diesel, left, with musician Dennis Dowlut, who is part of Disco Montego, a dance music duo that topped the charts in the 2000s.

Mr Dowlut, 47, of Mauritian heritage was one half of Australian ‘00s dance duo Disco Montego alongside brother Darren.

Their hit song Beautiful made No. 9 on the charts before being certified Gold and nominated at the 2002 ARIA Awards for Best Pop Release.

Darren later died in 2005 from cancer six weeks after his diagnosis.

Recently Dowlut reinvented Disco Montego for the FIFA World Cup in 2010, before working under the stage name Deutsch Duke with artists including Flight Facilities and Set Mo for their track White Dress.

NSW Police located Bowie, four, and Basten, 10, near a Sydney train station on Thursday morning.

Police said Bowie and Basten were at their parents‘ home in Darling Point, about 2:30am on Thursday when their father Dowlut allegedly said he wanted to go to Melbourne.

At the time of the alert, Basten and sister Bowie Dowlut had last been seen in a white SSangYong SUV headed for Melbourne in the early hours of Thursday.

Police said despite the children’s mother protests, Mr Dowlut, 47, packed the family into the car and set off, before allegedly forcing her out of the car in Alexandria about 3am.

She then contacted police. Police said in a statement this morning they held “extreme concerns” for the children’s safety.

Father of the missing children, Dennis Dowlut.