{"id":70076,"date":"2025-03-12T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/12\/tom-phillips-new-zealand-police-search-marokopa-three-children-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T02:59:12","slug":"police-launch-new-search-for-fugitive-father-and-children-missing-in-new-zealand-wilderness-for-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70076","title":{"rendered":"Police launch new search for fugitive father and children missing in New Zealand wilderness for three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few days police will be \u2018present\u2019 in the remote Marokopa area where Tom Phillips and his three children are believed to be hiding<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand police are launching a fresh operation in the rugged North Island wilderness to track down a fugitive father and his three children who have been missing for more than three years.<\/p>\n<p>Just before Christmas 2021, Tom Phillips <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/05\/new-zealands-two-year-search-in-wilderness-for-fugitive-father-and-three-missing-children\">fled into a remote area of Waikato with his children<\/a> Ember, thought to be now aged 9<strong>,<\/strong> Maverick, 10, and Jayda, 11, following a dispute with their mother. Phillips does not have legal custody for his children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/12\/tom-phillips-new-zealand-police-search-marokopa-three-children-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few days police will be \u2018present\u2019 in the remote Marokopa area where Tom Phillips and his three children are believed to be hidingNew Zealand police are launching a fresh operation in the rugged North Island wilderness to track down a fugi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70154,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70076\/revisions\/70154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}