The grandmother of a missing four-year-old boy from South Australia's Far North has spoken publicly about the case for the first time since his disappearance nine months ago.
Gus Lamont was last seen by one of his grandmothers playing at the family homestead at Oak Park Station on September 27, 2025.
On February 5, 2026, police declared the boy's disappearance a major crime and said someone living at the remote station was a suspect in the case and his likely death.
His grandmother Josie Murray, 75, revealed to 7News that police consider her their main suspect, and believe she may have been involved in covering up the four-year-old's death.
"They think that I buried him, took him out and buried him. That’s all they’ve said so far," she said.
She described the allegations of her involvement as "ludicrous", and strongly denied any involvement in the case.
"It just doesn’t make sense. Why would you inflict what’s happening to us now? why would you do that to yourself?" she said as she held back tears.
She said the boy had gone missing before, but he knew the land well and was "just a normal, happy, four-year-old child".
Murray told 7News she maintained her belief that Gus may have been abducted by a stranger, despite police repeatedly stating that an abduction was considered highly unlikely, given the station's isolated location.
Earlier this month, Murray pleaded guilty to possessing a silencer for a .22 rifle, after the Adelaide Magistrates Court heard she had a previous conviction involving the theft of unsecured firearms by a fugitive.
Josie Murray, 75, pleaded guilty to one aggravated charge of possessing a silencer – unrelated to the four-year-old's disappearance. (Source: Nine)
She was fined AU$10,500, and disqualified from owning a firearms licence for five years.
Her lawyer said it was it had been "an extremely difficult time for my client".
"A grandchild went missing on the property late last year," he said.
Gus' disappearance sparked intensive searches spanning almost 500sq km.
South Australian Police said the investigation into the disappearance of four-year-old Gus has been one of "the largest and most intensive undertaken" in connection with a missing person.
"Sadly – despite 11 individual, large-scale searches of Oak Park Station – no evidence relating to Gus Lamont’s disappearance has been located," a spokesperson said.
Police previously confirmed his grandmothers, his mother and his younger brother were at the property at the time he disappeared but emphasised his parents were not suspects.
Detectives also said a family member living at the property had withdrawn co-operation from police.
Both grandparents previously released a statement saying the family had co-operated with the investigation and wanted nothing more than to reunite Gus with his parents.
From the time Gus disappeared SA Police have been investigating three specific lines of inquiry – that Gus had wandered off and become lost; that he had been abducted; or that a person known to him was involved in his disappearance.
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