Tom Phillips shooting in NZ shows what police face with skilled and desperate fugitives
- Written by Ross Hendy, Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University

New Zealand police have tonight found two children, alone at a camp site in a remote location, after their fugitive father was shot dead during a burglary early on Monday morning.
The death of Tom Phillips came after almost four years on the run, hiding out in dense bush in the North Island’s western Waikato...