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Speaker 1: It's brutal, but Tom Phillips brought this whole thing on himself. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he was killed, and that is a very hard and

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Speaker 1: sad fact that his kids are going to have to

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Speaker 1: live with for the rest of their lives. Their dad

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Speaker 1: is dead, But he shot a cop, an innocent local

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Speaker 1: constable who was just trying to do his job. Tom

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Speaker 1: Phillips also deprived his children of their mum, of any

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Speaker 1: professional medical attention, of any formal education for four years.

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Speaker 1: Ember was five when they were taken. Bush hasn't been

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Speaker 1: to school since she's now nine. The kids were essentially

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Speaker 1: used as helpers as dad carried out bank robberies, burglaries, breakins.

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Speaker 1: These are not the actions of a father who wants

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Speaker 1: the best for his kid. Any parent who loves their

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Speaker 1: child knows you do not put them in harm's way.

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Speaker 1: Much will be made of the custody situation in the

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Speaker 1: coming days, but the fact is we don't know much

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Speaker 1: detail about this and likely never will. Well, the full

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Speaker 1: story won't come out. When he went Bush the second time,

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Speaker 1: Tom was in breach of a custody order. That's about

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Speaker 1: all we know because family court cases are wrapped up

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Speaker 1: in suppression. Like Fort Knox in this country to protect

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Speaker 1: the kids. But whatever happened before court, whatever happened in court,

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Speaker 1: no matter how unfair or unjust a case may be,

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Speaker 1: if you take the law into your own hands, run

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Speaker 1: away with your own kids, deprive them of an education,

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Speaker 1: in contact with society for four years, then the outcomes

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Speaker 1: are yours to own and yours alone. The outcomes are bittersweet.

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Speaker 1: In this case, a father is dead, a police constable

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Speaker 1: is in hospital, lucky to be alive, and three children

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Speaker 1: have survived, at least physically, a dangerous situation they should

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Speaker 1: never have been put in in the first place. For

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