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Police records show fugitive father Tom Phillips' firearms licence was suspended just weeks after his first disappearance in 2021, and later revoked when he was deemed "not a fit and proper person" to hold a gun.
The information, released to RNZ under the Official Information Act (OIA), is among the only new details police have been willing to release about Phillips' interactions with authorities ahead of a public inquiry into the case.
Phillips died on 8 September following a shootout with police, after nearly four years in the bush with his children.
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