Overview
- A High Court jury in Auckland found the 44-year-old guilty of killing her six- and eight-year-old children, rejecting a defense that she was not criminally responsible.
- The children's remains were discovered in August 2022 inside suitcases bought in an online auction of an unpaid storage unit.
- She left New Zealand after the killings and was extradited from South Korea in November 2022; authorities say she holds both South Korean and New Zealand citizenship.
- Prosecutors argued the murders were planned, while the defense cited profound grief after her husband's cancer death seven months earlier; jurors reached a verdict after only hours of deliberation.
- The judge kept her in custody and directed further psychiatric evaluations before the November sentencing date.