New Zealand police have released CCTV footage they believe shows a fugitive father and one of his children breaking into a shop in the rural town of Piopio, nearly four years after the family vanished into the bush.
Tom Phillips, who disappeared in December 2021 with his three children – Jayda, now 12, Maverick, 10, and Ember, 9 – has been living off-grid in the forests of the Waikato region on the North Island, according to police, reported the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He does not have legal custody of the children.
