{"id":17144,"date":"2025-09-12T02:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/17144\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T02:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:43:10","slug":"police-finish-search-of-tom-phillips-bush-camps-ahead-of-road-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/17144\/","title":{"rendered":"Police finish search of Tom Phillips\u2019 bush camps ahead of road reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe have a dedicated team working meticulously to examine the items that police have collected from the sites. These items will be critical into determining who exactly has been helping Tom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe campsites will be dismantled following the conclusion of the scene examination and the key items will be secured as evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police at the location of one of the campsites just off the Te Anga Rd. Photo \/ Dean Purcell\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police at the location of one of the campsites just off the Te Anga Rd. Photo \/ Dean Purcell<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe events of this week are unprecedented, and we understand there has been a lot of angst amongst the community, and the investigation team is committed to leaving no stone unturned as inquiries continue,\u201d McBeth said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">Phillips was shot dead by police on Monday after four years on the run with his children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">In a stand-off, he shot a police officer multiple times. The officer is recovering in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">Phillips was found on a quad bike with one of his children after a burglary at a farm store in Piopio. The child helped lead police to their siblings at a bush campsite.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Cordons have remained in place at the scene of the shooting since Monday, but they are expected to be lifted and the road reopened later today. Photo \/ George Heard\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Cordons have remained in place at the scene of the shooting since Monday, but they are expected to be lifted and the road reopened later today. Photo \/ George Heard<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">Phillips had been on the run since December 2021, when he disappeared with his three children from their family farm in Marokopa. Jayda, Maverick and Ember were 8, 7 and 5 when they went into hiding. They are now 12, 10 and 9. <\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">The children\u2019s mother said that \u201cthey have been dearly missed every day for nearly four years, and we are looking forward to welcoming them home with love and care\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">The children are now in the care of Oranga Tamariki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\">A number of areas in western Waikato remain cordoned off as police process evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BykrjImGEgsVna\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have a dedicated team working meticulously to examine the items that police have collected from the sites.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3017,16651,18987,18985,1061,18990,14902,4731,634,18986,5346,18984,1342,8461,18989,111,43,139,69,1118,10936,675,13913,2574,1314,1439,1870,18988,1865,5134,13797,102],"class_list":["post-17144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-ahead","tag-bush","tag-camping","tag-camps","tag-children","tag-completion","tag-cordons","tag-days","tag-death","tag-examination","tag-expected","tag-finish","tag-five","tag-lift","tag-nearing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-phillips","tag-police","tag-remote","tag-reopening","tag-road","tag-scene","tag-search","tag-sites","tag-today","tag-tom","tag-used","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}