Mother of missing Marokopa children speaks on recent sighting

The mother of three Marokopa children missing with their father Tom Phillips for nearly three years has spoken for the first time since a sighting last week. Ember, Maverick and Jayda Phillips have been missing in Waikato bush along with their father since December 2021. Last week a group of teenage pig hunters spotted three children and a man carrying backpacks and wearing masks on Marokopa farmland who pulled out their phones and filmed the encounter. This afternoon the children's mother Cat told Mata Reports' Mihingarangi Forbes she recognised her former partner as she walked past a ute in the Hamilton Bunnings carpark in August last year.