AUCKLAND: A mom who murdered her two kids and stuffed them into suitcases stashed inside a storage locker was on Wednesday (Nov 26) sentenced to life imprisonment in New Zealand.
Hakyung Lee, a New Zealand citizen initially from South Korea, was discovered responsible earlier this 12 months of killing her kids in a grisly crime dubbed the nation’s “suitcase murders”.
Excessive Court docket decide Geoffrey Venning sentenced Lee to life imprisonment with a minimal non-parole interval of 17 years, saying she had killed kids who had been “notably weak”.
Flanked by safety guards and a translator, 45-year-old Lee confirmed little response because the sentence was handed down.
Lee killed her son, Minu Jo and daughter, Yuna Jo, aged six and eight, with an overdose of prescription remedy in 2018.
The our bodies weren’t discovered till 2022, when an unsuspecting household pried open the contents of an deserted storage locker they purchased in an public sale.
Lee, who had lengthy since modified her identify and fled the nation for South Korea, was extradited to face trial in New Zealand.
The sentencing listening to on Wednesday heard how the murders had left deep emotional scars on Lee’s household.
