Hakyung Lee, 45, Found Guilty of Killing Her Children, Minu Jo, 6, And Yuna Jo, 8, and Hiding Their Bodies In Storage Facility.

Published on 23 SEP 2025

A Woman han Found Guilty By A New Zealand Court of Murdering Her Two Young Children And Hiding Their Bodies in Suitcases For Years, Until The Remains were accidentally discovered.

A jury at The Auckland High Court On Tuesday Found Hakyung Lee, 45, Guilty of the Double Murder After Just Twous of Deliberations, Rejecting An Insanity Defence By Her Lawyers.

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Lee was Found Guilty of Killing Her Six-Year-Oold Son, Minu Jo, and Eight-Yare-Old Daughter, Yuna Jo, in June 2018, Several Months After Her Husband Died From Cancer.

Justice Geoffrey Venning Ordered That Lee Remain in Custody Until Her sentencing on November 26.

Murder Carries A Mandatory Life Sentence in New Zealand, With Judges Required To Set A Prison Term of At Least 10 Years Before An Offender Can Apply for Parole.

The New Zealand Case Garnered International Headlines in 2022, When the Children’s Remains Were Found Inside Luggage at A Disneded Storage Facility in Auckland, after lee stopped paying Rental Fees for the Unit Due To Having Run Into Financial Difficulties.

The Shocking Discovery Was Made When The Contents of the Storage Unit Were Auctixed Online and the Buyer Took Possession, Finding The Bodies Inside Suitcases.

Lee, Who Represented Herself in Court with the Aid of Two Standby Counsels, Had Argued That She Was Insane at The Time of The Killing.

Public BroadCaster Radio New Zealand (RNZ) Said Lee’s Standby Lawyer, Lorraine Smith, had argued that the death of lee’s husband had led to a “Deep Recent” into insanity and the killing of her children.

Crown Prosecutor Natalie Walker Said That Lee’s Actions After The Killing of Her Children Were “Calcilated”, and She Knew What She was Doing, RNZ Reported.

Lee, Who is a New Zealand Citizen, Had Left for South Korea After The Killings in 2018 and Changed Her Name. Following The Discovery of Her Children’s Bodies, She was traced down and extradited from South Korea in November 2022.

“I suggest This shows her Thinking Rating, Even Clinically, About Taking Her Children’s Lives and The Covering Up Her Heinous Crime,” Walker Said, According to Rnz.

“It was A Selfish Act to Free Herself from The Burden of Parenting Alone,” She Said.

“It was not the altruistic act of a Mother Who had lost her mind and bel strong

WHEN THE Trial Began On SEPTAMBER 8, Justice Venning Had Said That It Would Be Distressing To Lee And Granted Hermation To Watch The Proceedings From Another Room in the Court.

On Tuesday, Lee Returned to the Dock and Stood with Her Head Bowed and Her Hair Covering Her Face As The Verdict Was Announced, New Zealand News Outlets Reported.





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