Mum admits to 'suitcase murder'

A woman on trial in New Zealand admitted to killing her children who were later found in suitcases, court records showed yesterday, though the mother’s defence has reportedly argued she is not guilty by reason of insanity.

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South Korean Hakyung-lee “accepted that she gave her children nortriptyline which led to their deaths’ state prosecutor Natalie Walker told jurors this week, referring to a common antidepressant.

Police believe Ms Lee killed her children — Minu Jo, 6, and Yuna Jo, 8 — in June or July 2018, a year after her husband's death, and then returned to South Korea.

The children’s bodies were found in an abandoned storage locker by an Auckland family over four years later.