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'Very difficult with children': Expert issues warning as police race to find missing Marokopa kids

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 8 Sept 2025, 5:50pm
The Phillips children, from left, Ember, Jayda and Maverick, have been missing with their fugitive dad Tom Phillips, inset, since December 2021. The family are thought to be on the run in bush in the Marokopa area, with all four spotted by teenage pig hunters last month.
The Phillips children, from left, Ember, Jayda and Maverick, have been missing with their fugitive dad Tom Phillips, inset, since December 2021. The family are thought to be on the run in bush in the Marokopa area, with all four spotted by teenage pig hunters last month.

'Very difficult with children': Expert issues warning as police race to find missing Marokopa kids

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 8 Sept 2025, 5:50pm

The race is on to track down the two missing children of Marokopa man Tom Phillips before the end of the day.

Phillips was shot dead earlier today by police, following a burglary in Waikato's Piopio.

Former police negotiator Lance Burdett says the fact they're children will make the hunt so much tougher for police. 

"They'll be panicking, probably,  and it's unpredictable. They won't stick to tracks and trails...so they could be all over the place."

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