That was, until the early hours of Monday morning, when police responding to a report of an attempted burglary entered into a shootout that resulted in Mr Phillips' death, ending a four-year manhunt.

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The parents of Tom Phillips, who vanished with his three children into the New Zealand wilderness in 2021, have made a public ...