Hakyung Lee is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her two children, whose bodies were found stuffed into suitcases in a storage locker, at Auckland High Court, New Zealand. Photograph: Markia Khabazi/AFP via Getty ImagesSouth 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. Life imprisonment is the harshest punishment available in New Zealand, which abolished the death penalty in 1989. The children’s remains were discovered in 2022 by a family sorting through the contents of a storage locker they had bought at an online auction. New Zealand police launched a murder investigation and Lee, who had moved to South Korea in 2018, was extradited to face trial in November 2022.
