Mom pleaded guilty to the murder of her two children

A mother in New Zealand is found guilty of killing her two children and hiding their bodies in suitcases in the event of a high profile that shocked the country.

44 -year -old Hackung Lee was convicted of murder at thehe Auckland Supreme Court on Tuesday, after trial last about two weeksS She had pleaded guilty.

Lee’s lawyers say she was crazy during the murder that happened months after her husband died of cancer. But prosecutors claim that her actions are calculated.

The remains of her children were discovered in 2022 by a family who purchased the contents of an abandoned auction department in Auckland.

It is believed that the bodies have been stored there for several years.

Lee was arrested in Ulsan, South Korea, in September 2022 and extradited to New Zealand later that year.

During the trial, the court heard that the bodies of the children had no trace of trauma, although it was clear that they had been killed by someone.

A pathologist found that they had died of murder through unspecified means, including the use of Nortriptyline, antidepressantProsecutor’s office said.

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

The defense claims that Lee’s mental health has deteriorated after her husband’s death and believed that she was best if everyone died together.

It made her try to kill herself and her children with an antidepressant, but she Wrong the dose – when she woke up her children were deadS While she was killing her children, she was “not guilty of murder for madness,” her lawyer said.

But the prosecutor’s office claims that Lee demonstrated a rational thought by hiding the remains of the children, changing his name and moving back to South Korea, the prosecutor’s office said.

The killings were a “selfish act to get rid of the weight only of parenting,” the prosecutor’s office said.

On Tuesday, Lee descended his head down and did not react when the jurors executed the sentence, which came after about three hours of discussion.

Lee will be sentenced in November. She is facing a maximum prison sentence, AFP reported.