Marokopa marks year since Phillips' death: 'No winners out of this ordeal'

A year after Tom Phillips was shot dead by police in the remote King Country bush of New Zealand, the small community of Marokopa sits with a grief that has no clean edges — not quite mourning, not quite relief. Phillips had taken his children into hiding following a Family Court custody ruling, and what followed across nearly four years tested the limits of law, loyalty, and landscape. The wound left behind is communal as much as personal: a district asking how a family dispute became a fatal standoff, and whether the inquiry now underway will have the courage to look at the roots, not merely