A mum-of-two has been jailed for life after she murdered both of her children and kept them inside a suitcase left in a storage unit for four years.

Hakyung Lee, 44, murdered eight-year-old Yuna Jo and six-year-old Minu Jo in 2018, but their remains were not discovered until August 2022.

She had stopped paying rental fees on the unit, meaning the contents of the locker were auctioned online.

It was only when the buyers took the suitcases home did they discover the bodies, with both children found fully clothed and wrapped in several layers of plastic.

Lee could be seen looking down at her feet as she is sentenced to life imprisonment at Auckland High Court.

A post-mortem examination was unable to determine their exact cause of death due to the amount of time between their death and th

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