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Hakyung Lee was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday, Nov. 25, after murdering her two young children

The killings have been dubbed "the suitcase murders" because the children's bodies were stored in suitcases at a storage facility for four years

Lee committed the crime after expressing suicidal thoughts following her husband's death in 2017

A New Zealand mother who was found guilty of killing her two children and concealing their bodies in suitcases has been sentenced to life in prison.

Hakyung Lee, a citizen of New Zealand who is originally from South Korea, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years, according to ABC AU .

High Court judge Geoffrey Venning delivered the sentence on Tuesday, Nov. 25, citing that Lee, 43, killed

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