CHILLING photos have been released of the remote campsite where cops discovered fugitive dad "Bushman" hiding with his children.

Thomas Phillips had been on the run with his three kids, Ember, 9, Maverick, 10, and Jayda, 12, for almost four years before he was found and killed in western Waikato, New Zealand on Monday.

The fugitive dad was caught when a witness spotted him and his eldest daughter Jayda robbing a small farming supply store .

The pair were then confronted by cops after running into a trap when they were driving away on a quad bike.

Phillips was then killed in a shoot out before his two younger children, Maverick and Ember, were found at the Waikato campsite.

Cops have since released grim pictures of the "deep bush" area, which show quad bikes hidden among the trees w

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