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

For most of the trial, Hakyung Lee beamed into the courtroom from another. But on Tuesday, 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, w

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