News about Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips disappeared with Jayda, 11, Maverick, nine, and Ember, eight, near his parents' property in Marokopa, south of Auckland, in December 2021. He has evaded cops for three years. Now, an Aussie bushtracker reveals how he may have done it.

Tom Phillips ran into the hills surrounding Marokopa, south of Auckland, with Jayda, 11, Maverick, nine, and Ember, eight, in 2021. Now, locals communicate with him by code.

Tom Phillips vanished into the hills surrounding Marokopa, south of Auckland, with Jayda, 11, Maverick, nine, and Ember, eight, in December 2021, following a custody fight with their mother, Cat. Now, locals have spoken out about his alleged bank robbery.

Tom Phillips disappeared with Jayda, 11, Maverick, nine, and Ember, eight, near his parents' home in Marokopa, south of Auckland. Now, insiders reveal how they managed to survive.

Jayda, 11, Maverick, 9, and Ember, 8, who were kidnapped by their dad Tom Phillips in December 2021, disappearing into the rugged terrain near their home in Marokopa, south of Auckland. Now, their sister has spoken out.

A former New Zealand Special Air Service tracker has said that elite soldiers would be able to find a man on the run with his three children within two weeks.

Trudging single file through rough terrain, a heavily bearded man in camouflage gear carrying a backpack and rifle is followed by three smaller, similarly dressed figures. As they traverse the hillside in Te Anga, on New Zealand's North Island, they are spotted by two teenagers out hunting wild pigs on their farm. Believing them to be poachers, the 16-year-olds film them on a phone then challenge them. One of the foursome, a girl, her face covered with a mask, replies. 'I said, "This is private property" and she was like, "Yeah... duh",' the boy recalled of the dusk encounter.

Tom Phillips and his three young children, Jayda, 11, Maverick, 9, and Ember, 8, have been missing since December, 2021.

The mother of three children who have been missing with their fugitive father for almost three years revealed she saw them at a Bunnings last year.

Fugitive father and three kids spotted in the wilderness three years after vanishing without trace

The two Kiwi teenage hunters that spotted a fugitive father and his three children who've been missing for nearly three years revealed what they spoke about.

Tom Phillips, along with daughter Jayda, now 11, son Maverick, 9, and youngest daughter Ember, 8, disappeared from the New Zealand town of Marokopa in December 2021. It has been revealed that the father-of-three is wanted for questioning over an alleged armed robbery of a bank in Te Kuiti near Marokopa in September 2023, with police warning the public not the approach Phillips. CCTV footage from the alleged armed robbery showed a man on a motorcycle, but a smaller accomplice sitting on the back. Both were dressed head-to-toe in black clothing. Police said the second robbery suspect was a woman. This comes after a video taken earlier this month showed Phillips and his children walking through the wilderness in camouflage gear on New Zealand's North Island.

Tom Phillips along with daughter Jayda, now 11, son Maverick, 9, and youngest daughter Ember, 8, disappeared from the New Zealand town of Marokopa in December 2021.

On January 18, 2022, Tom Phillips and his three children, Jayda, 10, Maverick, 8, and Ember, 7, were reported missing from the tiny village of Marokopa on the west coast of New Zealand's north island. No one has seen the children in more than two years, though their father has been seen several times and was reportedly involved in a armed robbery. Now police know where the family is hiding out.

EXCLUSIVE: Furious residents living in stunning countryside are fighting plans to build a giant solar farm the size of 120 football pitches on a 200-acre greenbelt site, with them echoing: 'We are all NIMBY's, we don't want it near our homes and it will be a terrible sight!' Richard Froggatt, a race mechanic whose home is in the heart of Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, moaned: 'It will dominate the landscape, destroy good agricultural land and trees, and wipe out wildlife.' As many visitors and villagers live on the outskirts, the former parish councillor said, 'It would be the wrong construction in the wrong location, and locals here are largely against it.' Hundreds of protests have flooded into local planners after the ambitious new solar farm site in Charley near Shepshed. Campaigner Val Johnson (bottom right) added: 'It sounds like we are being NIMBY, and we are!'

A father who has been missing with his three children for nearly two years has been seen homeless but he has vanished again, with police struggling to locate him. On January 18, 2022, Tom Phillips (left inset) and his three children Jayda, Maverick, and Ember (pictured) were reported missing by family members.

PC Tom Phillips, 33, of Croydon, south London, faces five charges of violation of the Communications Act 2003. The officer, who is part of the Met Ops team, was disqualified from attending his case management hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court this morning. A new trial management hearing was scheduled for November 18 for the prosecution to disclose the expert evidence. Between April 8 and May 8, 2021, Phillips denies five charges of delivering a message that was "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene, or menacing character." His trial has been postponed until January 24, 2023. The officer was off duty at the time of the suspected offences and was barred from service.

The Palestinian terrorist group confessed to providing details to supporters who notified Westminster Magistrates Court last month. Ms Livni, who was a cabinet minister during the Israeli offensive in Gaza last year, was compelled to cancel a trip to London last week. Only after Ms Livni, the new Opposition Leader, was alerted to the warrant and pulled out of a speaking engagement at the last minute, was a diplomatic incident avoided.