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Tom Phillips: Fugitive dad and youngsters noticed in countryside years after going lacking

By Editorial Board Published October 9, 2024 3 Min Read
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Tom Phillips: Fugitive dad and youngsters noticed in countryside years after going lacking

A father and his three kids who’ve been lacking for 3 years have been noticed strolling via a rural space of New Zealand.

Police stated officers had launched a serious search following the “credible sighting” of Tom Phillips, alongside together with his two daughters and son.

They have been seen climbing via a bush space close to Marokopa on the nation’s North Island.

Phillips, together with Jayda, 11, Maverick, 9, and Ember, eight, have been noticed from a distance by a 16-year-old pig hunter, in response to native media.

They have been carrying camouflage gear and huge tenting backpacks – whereas the fugitive father was additionally reportedly seen holding a gun.

The foursome have been lacking since December 2021, when police say Phillips took his kids to an “unknown location”.

The kids’s mom Cat stated she was overjoyed by the sighting but additionally “overwhelmed” – as she known as on Phillips at hand himself in to the police.

“It was like Christmas come early and I really thought they would be coming home this time.”

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The kids’s mom Cat stated the response to the sighting had been too gradual. Pic: New Zealand Police

Nonetheless, after Phillips and the kids have been noticed on Thursday, police are but to find them regardless of deploying a army helicopter and different assets.

Cat hit out on the official response to the sighting, describing it as “lacking”.

She added: “More should have been done, instantly… How can there not be more effort put in?

“It is a confirmed sighting and but nothing has come of it.”

Earlier this summer time police provided $80,000 (£37,000) for details about the lacking relations, though the deadline for the reward has now expired.

Since 2021 there have been quite a few sightings, together with in November 2023 when a suspect considered Phillips was caught on CCTV stealing a quad bike from exterior a rural dwelling.

Police additionally suspect he was concerned in an armed theft of a financial institution in Te Kuiti in Might 2023, with officers later issuing a warrant for his arrest.

Fugitive father Tom Phillips. Pic: New Zealand Police

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Tom Phillips. Pic: New Zealand Police

Detective Inspector Andrew Saunders stated: “While we cannot go into detail, we want to reassure the public that we have the resources in place to respond to any information or reports of sightings that come in.

“Our focus may be very a lot on the secure return of Jayda, Maverick and Ember to their whānau [family] and we’re doing all that we are able to to make that occur.”

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