This is something I’ve wondered about ever since the second disappearance, and that’s how Tom was allowed to have full custody of his children after defying a custody order. The police treating this as a “private family matter” until he robbed a bank is also absolutely rotten.
In my view, we need to make a lot of changes to how the entire child custody system works, as well as how the police treat those who defy a custody arrangement.
Maybe the mother was even worse. Maybe she was an alcoholic or a drug addict. Maybe she was negligent or abusive towards the kids.
Sometimes the courts have to choose the lesser of two evils.
There was background in an article I can’t find… which may have just been some crap someone posted… that supports that argument.
This is just click bait ‘journalism’.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/572893/new-photos-reveal-stash-amassed-by-tom-phillips
Also another update regarding what sounds like another campsite. It sounds like pretty bleak living conditions for the kids, with rubbish scattered all around.
I saw the flyover of that, it looks more like fly-tipping than a camp, and it roght on one of the tracks around Appletree road
You’d think he’d have stolen some rubbish bags.