A mother who admitted killing her children, putting them in suitcases, leaving them in a South Auckland storage unit and flying to South Korea has been found guilty of their murders, with a jury rejecting her defence of insanity.

For most of the trial, Hakyung Lee beamed into the courtroom from another.

But today, she returned to the dock, with her head held down and her hair covering her face, as the foreperson read out the jury's verdicts after just over three hours of deliberation.

Justice Geoffrey Venning convicted Lee and remanded her in custody until sentencing on November 26.

He asked for mental health reports to be prepared ahead of that hearing.

The bodies of Minu Jo, 6, and his older sister, Yuna Jo, 8, were discovered in August 2022 by an unsuspecting couple who won a Papat

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