Gloomy details about the “murder of the suitcase” revealed in court

The bodies of two young children found in suitcases in New Zealand-Uz after were killed by their mother, containing traces of antidepressant drug, heard the court.

44-year-old Hacung Lee is tried in a court in Auckland for claiming that she has killed her children-eight-year-old Jo Joe and six-year-old Min Joe-I hid their bodies in a storage facility.

The remains of the children were found inside the suitcases of a family who purchased the contents of the auction storage ward in 2022.

Traces of Nortriptiline antidepressant were later found in the thoracic cavity and liver of both June and Minutes, prosecutor Natalie Walker told the court on Tuesday.

The drug should not be given to children and in cases of overdose can cause seizures, drowsiness or death.

D -Ja Lee was prescribed nortriptyline as a test in 2017 after telling a doctor that she had problems with sleep and felt dizzy after the diagnosis of her husband’s cancer.

She admitted that she was not guilty of two murder accusations, but accepted that she had caused the death of her children, the court heard.

She also accepts that after their death, she wrapped them in three plastic bags, placed them in suitcases, which she sealed with a channel tape, and took them to a storage center, where she left them for four years, prosecutors told the jurors.

Prosecutors also claim that she has changed her name and a month after he killed her children and hid their bodies, who flew to Seoul on a business class.

She was arrested in Ulsan, South Korea in September 2022, after Interpol issued a global red notice of her and was extradited to New Zealand in November of the same year.

The court also listened to the terrible details of how the bodies of the children were found.

On August 10, 2022, two public members won a auction and paid $ 401 in New Zealand (175 pounds; $ 238) for the abandoned G -Lee storage locker, which was filled with household items, including bikes, clothing and two suitcases.

When the next day he loaded these suitcases on his trailer, the buyer noticed an unusual smell-which he likened to the “smell of a dead rat” and after arriving at home, cut into locked and plastic suitcases with a knife.

Inside there were a few black, tightly tied plastic bags stuffed in each other. Inside them were the bodies of two children – one in each suitcase – which were later identified as Yun and a minute.

An autopsy has determined that there are no signs of childhood trauma, such as broken bones, though it was clear that they were killed by someone else.

A pathologist found that they had died of murder through unspecified means, including the use of Nortriptyline, prosecutors said.

The court heard that Da -Lee raised his prescription for the drug from a pharmacy in August 2017 – five months after her husband Ian Joe was diagnosed with cancer.

At the beginning of Mr. Joe’s death in November 2017, Mrs. Lee repeatedly suggested that she and the children would also die if he did, according to the prosecutor’s office. G -jj’s mother claims that she reminded her of crying on the phone, saying she would die if he died.

On another occasion, Dj Lee claims that she has sent a message to her husband, saying “if you die, I will die with our two children.”

And while she was on vacation in Australia after the death of G -n Joe, D -Ja Lee claims that she told a friend that she wanted the plane to crashed so that she and her children died together. D -Ja Lee said it would have been less sad if her children had died, not her husband, the prosecutor’s office told the court.

Defense lawyer Laurera Smith told the court that “the descent of D -Lee in the madness”, which caused her killing her two children when G -J Joe died. Before that, the defense said, they are “happy little family”.

After G -J Joe was accepted into ICU and then palliative care, Da -lee began to “unravel” and believed that he was best if everyone died together, said G -ja Smith.

The defense claims that Da -Lee also took antidepressants when she gave them to her children, but she made the dose wrong – and when she woke up, her children were dead.

“She killed her children, but she is not guilty of murder because of madness,” said Gia Smith.

As the process opened on Monday, justice Jeffrey Venneng told the jurors that the case would probably determine “whether at the time the children were killed, Da -Lee is insane.”

G -ja Lee is a citizen of New Zealand, who was born in South Korea.

Her process is expected to continue for up to four weeks.