Grandmother Who Reportedly Tried To Kill Step-Grandson Three Times Facing Murder Charges

In a disturbing new report from Brisbane, Australia, a 58-year-old grandmother is facing court, having been accused of attempting to murder her 11-year-old grandson three times.

The woman, from Caboolture, will be charged, according to The Daily Mail, with four counts of attempted murder, attempted arson and interfering with a corpse.

Earlier in December, police revealed that they were investigating the deaths of two boys, one aged three years and the other seven months, at the Morayfield home, as well as the attempted murder of two boys, aged 11 and nine, in a fire.

The police will tell the court that the 11-year-old boy woke on two occasions to his step-grandmother trying to smother him in his bed, once with a pillow and once with a dish cloth.

Investigators will reportedly rely on the boy’s version of events, a version denied by the grandmother, “Today is one step, there are still further steps to be taken in the investigation, so today is just one step,” Detective Acting Inspector Ben Fadian said.

The two older boys claim that they were trapped inside their bedroom during a fire that broke out while they were being cared for by their grandmother, “Investigations to date show the children’s escape from the bedroom was intentionally impeded,” police said.

The father of the two older boys, who is estranged from them, said he was horrified to learn the woman had been charged with attempting to murder one of his sons on three occasions, “No one has called me,” he said, “I have no contact details for them (the boys). It’s pretty bad.”

According to the police, the accused woman was at the property when a fire broke out inside the house, threatening two boys in their beds. And she was there when the youngest, an infant of seven months, died at night, leading the police suspect the woman.

In an interview, the woman’s son said his mother was a beautiful kind-hearted person, “I highly believe my mother would not be capable of killing anything,” he said. “Why would she all of a sudden? She is still the same person from 20 years ago.”