Overview
- Lee must begin her term as a compulsory patient in a secure psychiatric facility under mental health law and return to prison when clinically fit.
- Justice Geoffrey Venning described the murders as deliberate and calculated and noted the children were particularly vulnerable.
- A jury in September rejected an insanity defense after Lee admitted killing her children in 2018 by overdosing them with prescription medication.
- The children’s remains were found in 2022 inside suitcases from an abandoned Auckland storage unit bought at auction.
- Lee fled to South Korea, changed her name, and was extradited in 2022; relatives delivered anguished victim statements as police thanked South Korean authorities for assistance.