Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Did Stuff make the right call publishing the Tom Phillips audio?

I'm baffled by the Police Commissioner writing that open letter telling off Stuff today.

You probably missed this thing when it actually happened, which was back in September, but in the week that Tom Phillips was shot and the kids were saved from the bush, Stuff got its hands on some of the audio of the police chase, and they published it.

Ani O'Brien: Tom Phillips - the folk hero of the Family Court fringe

Tom Phillips is dead, his three children are now in the care of Oranga Tamariki, and a certain corner of the New Zealand internet has decided to martyr him as their patron saint of unfairly treated dads.

Ross Meurant: What Ever Her Faults

Whatever the faults of their mother precipitating Tom Phillips abduction of their children and subsequent estrangement from their peer group, natural evolution through 4, now lost years, there was no justification for Tom Phillips to have done what he did.

There were other options Tom Phillips could have taken.

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: There's no way Phillips' accomplices didn't know

The people who helped Tom Phillips should absolutely be packing themselves because the cops are making it pretty clear they're coming after them - and in a big way.

Cops have said today that it is clear that Tom Phillips had help recently, judging by the stuff that's lying around in the second camp. And what police are planning to do is to trace where that stuff came from.

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: This Tom Phillips documentary needs to be called off

Well, it now transpires that the police are allowing a documentary to be made about Tom Phillips and their hunt for him.

It's being made by Julie Christie, who’s produced lots of great television in the past, particularly reality TV.

There are camera crews following police officers and being given access - if you want to call it that - behind the scenes, the kind of access that the average media crew can't get.

Ross Hendy: Tom Phillips shooting in NZ shows what police face with skilled and desperate fugitives

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 region.

Matua Kahurangi: Questions raised over the timing of Tom Phillips’ latest sighting

The reappearance of fugitive Marokopa father Tom Phillips, dubbed New Zealand’s “hide-and-seek champion”, is raising eyebrows – not just because of the alledged burglary footage released by police, but because of the timing.