Grandmother speaks one year after toddler's disappearance from remote sheep
One year after a toddler vanished from a South Australian sheep station, police suspect the grandmother who was caring for him.
A toddler disappeared from a remote sheep station near Yunta, South Australia, on September 27 last year during the AFL grand final. Gus was being cared for by a grandparent at the homestead while his mother and grandmother worked at a shearing shed 15 kilometres away.
Grandmother Josie Murray spoke to 7NEWS for the first time, showing areas never before public. Police identified Murray as their main suspect, though she maintains her innocence.
'It brings me to tears that he is not here,' Murray said. She believes her grandchild was taken.
'I think he has to have been taken. Nothing else makes sense.'
Twelve months on, no clues have emerged, not even the hat he was wearing.
- Gus Lamont
- Child's name
- Sheep station near Yunta, South Australia
- Location
- September 27
- Date disappeared
- 15 kilometres
- Distance to shearing shed
Why it mattersOne year on, the case remains unsolved with deep questions about what happened to a missing child and a family at odds with police.
AustraliaOne of South Australia's most high-profile missing-child cases, it continues to draw public attention and raises ongoing questions about police investigation.
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