{"id":74132,"date":"2025-09-10T11:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/10\/tom-phillips-new-zealand-man-fugitive-father-outside-help-nz-police-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:57:50","slug":"discovery-of-new-campsite-shows-fugitive-tom-phillips-had-outside-help-nz-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74132","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of new campsite shows fugitive Tom Phillips had \u2018outside help,\u2019 NZ police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phillips had spent nearly four years hiding in the wilderness with his three children before he was killed in an exchange of fire with police on Monday<\/p>\n<p>Fugitive father Tom Phillips was receiving outside help during his years on the run before he was killed in a police shoot-out this week, New Zealand police said on Wednesday as they released images that show a newly discovered campsite.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips had spent nearly four years hiding in the wilderness with his three children. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/08\/tom-phillips-new-zealand-fugitive-father-shot-dead-nz-police\">killed in an exchange of fire<\/a> with police after reports of a burglary in the remote town of Piopio, in the central North Island, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/10\/tom-phillips-new-zealand-man-fugitive-father-outside-help-nz-police-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillips had spent nearly four years hiding in the wilderness with his three children before he was killed in an exchange of fire with police on MondayFugitive father Tom Phillips was receiving outside help during his years on the run before he was kil&#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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74132","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=74132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74133,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74132\/revisions\/74133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}