Source : Perth Now news
The grandparent of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont is set to speak out publicly for the first time since the boy’s shocking disappearance.
Just over a week after being convicted of a firearms offence, an interview with Josie Murray is set to be broadcast on Channel 7’s Spotlight over the weekend.
The television network dropped a shock sneak peak for the episode on its social media channels on Wednesday evening, revealing snippets of the interview.
The 45-second trailer includes footage of the fair-haired boy, who has not been seen since September 27 last year when he went missing from the family’s sheep farm in Yunta, in South Australia’s outback.
And it includes the first snippets of Ms Murray speaking publicly about her grandson’s disappearance.
“We say, how? Why? We just can’t believe it,” she said.
The trailer promises to reveal “clues the police missed” while investigating the mystery.
And it teases Ms Murray addressing controversies around the disappearance, which have seen police state at one stage that one of the boy’s grandparents was a suspect in the case.
Police have not arrested or charged anyone in relation to the disappearance.
“To be accused of doing something like this, you could not wish a more horrible experience on anyone,” she added.
Ms Murray is also set to reveal what she thinks happened on the fateful day in September 2025.
It comes just over a week after the 75-year-old was convicted of a firearms offence which came to light during police searches of the property — but was not related to Gus’s vanishing.
During one of 11 searches of the sheep station, police discovered a silencer stored in a safe room on the property.
Last week, Adelaide Magistrates Court heard that Mrs Murray had owned the silencer prior to a change in law requiring a licence to keep them.
However, despite the change in the law, she did not inform authorities she possessed the device.
She was fined $10,500 after pleading guilty to the charge and handed a temporary ban on possessing firearms.
As she left court, she did not utter a word to journalists, but sparked chaotic scenes as she walked to a waiting vehicle.
However, the public will hear her speak for the first time on Sunday night.
