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Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - Lilith7 - 12-06-2024 It looks as though the reward for information may have paid off, if it has then I hope he has the sense to give himself up so the kids are safe & aren't traumatised by him refusing to do so. Quote:https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-checkpoints-set-up-around-marokopa-as-tom-phillips-search-intensifies RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - Oh_hunnihunni - 12-06-2024 I am just amazed the authorities have let this go on for so long. We need to be more protective of our children. Too many are suffering from our neglect. Or dying. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - Zurdo - 12-06-2024 80 grand, hmmm - I better go down and sort this out. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - harm_less - 12-06-2024 We had friends here last night who were headed for Raglan today (from Taranaki). I suggested it might of been worth taking the coastal road via Marakopa with their eyes open RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - Lilith7 - 12-06-2024 The 80 grand's only for a short time apparently. I was thinking earlier that the reason for that may be partly so that people don't have too much time to think it over, including any possible consequences & partly because they want a swift result in view of how long they've been missing. Their poor Mum must be distraught, & its got to be tough on any grandparents too. If this was a son in law of mine who did this, he certainly wouldn't be at all happy with my reaction. But I only have DIL's & they're all lovely including the exes. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - nzoomed - 13-06-2024 Still blows my mind how they have been unable to locate them after all this time! RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - Lilith7 - 13-06-2024 There's been an alleged sighting of him & the kids at a thermal pool, whether it was or not is another thing. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/519410/alleged-sighting-of-tom-phillips-and-missing-kids-at-thermal-pools-police-sweep-marokopa RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - nzoomed - 13-06-2024 im not buying into the other sightings either such as the getaway on that motorbike linked to a robbery. All we see in the photo are two people on a bile with helmets, there is no way to identify them. There was also that sighting at a bunnings store, but again its hard to tell from the CCTV who it even is. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - Oh_hunnihunni - 13-06-2024 No doubt the police have information we do not have access to. I just think we should be more concerned about those kids in the care of a man willing to deprive their mother of the custody of their children. There are legal ways to challenge that, going bush is not one of them. It simply demonstrates why he does not have legal custody. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - Lilith7 - 14-06-2024 (13-06-2024, 10:24 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: No doubt the police have information we do not have access to. I just think we should be more concerned about those kids in the care of a man willing to deprive their mother of the custody of their children. There are legal ways to challenge that, going bush is not one of them. Someone told the media that police should leave him alone, that he's not doing any harm. Well - apart from keeping the rest of their family from having any contact with those kids, apart from keeping them away from medical care, & apart from keeping them away from education, & apart from causing continual stress to the rest of their family & perhaps putting them in harms's way. It has the look of someone who decided to keep the kids away from their mum & other family, & as there's been zero suggerstion that their mum is abusive towards them, it looks utterly spiteful & callous to both the kids & their other family. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - harm_less - 14-06-2024 The degree of support and sympathy he is receiving from the Marokopa community suggests to me there is more going on in this situation than the media is letting on, or privy to. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - king1 - 14-06-2024 I tend to agree, i'm sure there is more to this story... I'm wondering why the mother hasn't been all over the news about this for the last three years. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - Lilith7 - 14-06-2024 An expert tracker's opinion on finding them. Quote:https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/odt-quiz/odt-quiz-june-14 RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - harm_less - 14-06-2024 (14-06-2024, 03:17 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: An expert tracker's opinion on finding them.The area is limestone country and full of cave systems. I suspected long ago that he might have holed up in a cave. Out of the weather, usually with water flow nearby and invisible to heat detecting sensors. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - Lilith7 - 14-06-2024 (14-06-2024, 04:21 PM)harm_less Wrote:(14-06-2024, 03:17 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: An expert tracker's opinion on finding them.The area is limestone country and full of cave systems. I suspected long ago that he might have holed up in a cave. Out of the weather, usually with water flow nearby and invisible to heat detecting sensors. They're apparently trying that now, heat sensors. But surely he'd have some sort of radio to keep track of what they're doing to find them. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - harm_less - 14-06-2024 (14-06-2024, 07:26 PM)Lilith7 Wrote:As soon as Radio NZ reported today that the police were moving focus to Otorohanga I wondered if that was broadcasting that info to the quarry.(14-06-2024, 04:21 PM)harm_less Wrote: The area is limestone country and full of cave systems. I suspected long ago that he might have holed up in a cave. Out of the weather, usually with water flow nearby and invisible to heat detecting sensors. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - nzoomed - 15-06-2024 Good point about the caves, makes a ton of sense too as i was wondering with all the infra red cameras and drones, etc it should be a piece of cake to find people in the bush. And with this cave system, there are many caves yet to be discovered, some on private land too. Its obvious that should they be holing out in a cave, that its either an unexplored cave or one that gets little to no exploration. Perhaps if its private land, the cave might be owned by someone who is helping him out. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - Lilith7 - 15-06-2024 If they are in a cave somewhere, its got to be bloody cold this time of year & likely to get worse. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - nzoomed - 18-06-2024 Sometimes it can be wamer in caves and a more stable temperature ironically, really depends on the type of cave and if it has much water flowing through it too. RE: Search intensifies for Tom Phillips & three children - Lilith7 - 18-06-2024 (18-06-2024, 11:27 AM)nzoomed Wrote: Sometimes it can be wamer in caves and a more stable temperature ironically, really depends on the type of cave and if it has much water flowing through it too. I suppose they'd have sleeping bags & blankets anyway. |