Hakyung Lee killed her two children and hid their bodies in suitcases months after her husband died of cancer.

A South Korean-born New Zealand woman has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering her two young children, whose bodies were discovered in suitcases in an abandoned storage locker more than three years ago, New Zealand media reported.

Hakyung Lee was convicted of murdering her children, aged eight and six in 2018, before putting their bodies in suitcases. The bodies were discovered in 2022 after the auction of an abandoned storage unit.

AUCKLAND: A mother who murdered her two children 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 originally from South Korea, was found guilty earlier this year of killing her children in