South Korea extradited a 42-year-old homicide suspect to New Zealand two months after she was arrested over her attainable connection to the our bodies of two long-dead youngsters present in deserted suitcases in August.

South Korea’s Justice Ministry mentioned on Tuesday that the unidentified lady was handed over to New Zealand authorities on Monday night on the Incheon worldwide airport close to Seoul. The ministry mentioned it additionally has supplied New Zealand with unspecified “important evidence” on the case.

“With the extradition, we hope that the truth of the case, which has garnered worldwide attention, will be revealed through the fair and strict judicial process of New Zealand,” the ministry mentioned in a press release.

South Korean Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon issued an order for the lady’s extradition earlier this month. The Seoul High Court had earlier granted approval of her extradition after she expressed her consent in writing to be despatched again to New Zealand.

South Korean police arrested the lady at a southern port metropolis in September, based mostly on a home courtroom warrant issued after New Zealand requested her provisional arrest. New Zealand’s Justice Ministry then submitted a proper request for her extradition to the South Korean ministry.

New Zealand police mentioned the South Korean warrant for the suspect’s arrest was in reference to two homicide expenses. The youngsters’s our bodies have been found in August after a New Zealand household purchased deserted items, together with two suitcases, from a storage unit in a web-based public sale.

The youngsters have been between 5 and 10-years-old, had been useless for years, and the suitcases had been in storage in Auckland for at the very least three or 4 years, in keeping with police.

South Korean police say the lady was born in South Korea and later moved to New Zealand, the place she gained citizenship. Immigration information present she had returned to South Korea in 2018.

South Korean police had mentioned it was suspected she may very well be the mom of the 2 victims, as her previous handle in New Zealand was registered to the storage unit the place the suitcases have been stored.