One of the grandmothers of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont says police have a theory that she buried her grandson after an accident — an allegation she describes as "ludicrous".
Speaking publicly for the first time, Josie Murray told Seven News's Spotlight program that police should instead investigate the possibility her grandson was abducted from the family's remote property south of Yunta, in South Australia's outback
Gus was reported missing from his family's property, Oak Park Station, on September 27 last year.
Last month, the head of SA Police's Major Crime Division, Detective Superintendent Darren Fielke, said one of Gus's grandparents
remained a suspect in the police investigation into the boy's disappearance.
Police have previously said they believed Gus had not wandered off from the homestead and there was no evidence he had been abducted.
Ms Murray, 75, told Spotlight she was not involved in Gus's disappearance.
The network asked if she was the main suspect.
"They've said that they don't think I hurt him; they think that I buried him," she said.
"That's one of the theories they're working on and, as I say, for so many reasons, it's ludicrous. It just doesn't make sense.
"Why would you do that to yourself when … if he'd had an accident you'd just go, 'Well, as much as we hate it and everything, he's had an accident, we've got to deal with it'."
In February, Ms Murray and Gus's other grandmother, Shannon Murray, who also lives at Oak Park Station, released a statement saying the family had "cooperated fully with the investigation and want nothing more than to find Gus and reunite him with his mum and dad".
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