A woman has gone on trial in New Zealand accused of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for years before they were discovered.

Hakyung Lee - who is representing herself in court - denies the murders of six-year-old boy Minu Jo and eight-year-old girl Yuna Jo in June 2018.

Their remains were found by a couple who bought the contents of an abandoned storage unit in Auckland in August 2022.

She was extradited from South Korea to face the charges.

Stand-by counsel Lorraine Smith, who is assisting Lee in her self-representation, told jurors the mother was driven to insanity after her husband died of cancer in 2017.

Lee, who is a New Zealand citizen, had travelled to South Korea and changed her name in 2018, shortly after the children were believed to have been

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