5 d. ago NZ police scour remote campsite after fugitive shot to work out how children survived

Police are now facing questions about how the site – not far from the road where Tom Phillips was shot dead after almost four years on the run – had remained undetected.

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5 d. ago ‘It’s just left everybody flat’: Locals deflated after fugitive shot dead by police

Police are now facing questions about how a campsite where two children were found – not far from the road where their father was killed after almost four years on the run – had remained undetected.

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5 d. ago NZ children found in remote bush after fugitive father shot dead

A father who disappeared into remote bush with his three children four years ago has been killed in a shootout after an alleged early morning burglary.

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5 d. ago NZ police search for missing children after fugitive father shot dead

A father who disappeared into remote bush with his three children four years ago has been killed in a shootout after an alleged early morning burglary.

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5 d. ago Police statement on the shooting of NZ fugitive Tom Phillips

After being on the run for four years with his three children, fugitive Tom Phillips has been shot dead in a shootout with NZ police.

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2 w. ago High country hunt for alleged Porepunkah gunman continues for third day

Heavily armed police continue to search bushland near Porepunkah for fugitive Dezi Freeman, after two officers were shot dead on Tuesday.

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4 w. ago ‘Pull the right lever and kids laugh like drains’: Andy Griffiths on his comedic formula

The acclaimed children’s author on surviving as a punk rocker, becoming sex-literate and why kids find bodily functions so hilarious.

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