South Korean police stated they detained the girl within the southeastern port metropolis of Ulsan, primarily based on a South Korean court docket warrant issued after New Zealand requested her extradition.
The girl stays in South Korea and can bear a evaluation on the Seoul Excessive Courtroom over whether or not she must be extradited, stated Park Seung-hoon, an official on the Nationwide Police Company. Park stated a date hadn’t but been set however the evaluation should happen inside two months.
New Zealand police stated the warrant was in reference to two prices of homicide, they usually have utilized to have the girl extradited below the provisions of a treaty between the 2 nations. They stated they’ve requested South Korean authorities to maintain the girl in jail till she is extradited.
“To have somebody in custody abroad inside such a brief time frame has all been right down to the help of the Korean authorities and the coordination by our New Zealand Police Interpol workers,” Detective Inspector Tofilau Fa’amanuia Vaaelua stated in a press release.
He stated the investigation had been “very difficult” and that inquiries have been persevering with each in New Zealand and overseas.
Vaaelua stated police weren’t going to remark additional because the matter was now earlier than the courts. Authorities in New Zealand usually don’t touch upon pending court docket circumstances with the intention to keep away from the potential of influencing the end result.
The our bodies have been found final month after a New Zealand household purchased deserted items, together with two suitcases, from a storage unit in Auckland in a web based public sale. Police stated the New Zealand household had nothing to do with the deaths.
The kids have been between 5 and 10 years previous, had been lifeless for a lot of years, and the suitcases had been in storage for at the least three or 4 years, in line with police.
South Korean police say the girl was born in South Korea and later moved to New Zealand, the place she gained citizenship. She returned to South Korea in 2018, in line with immigration information.
South Korean police say it was suspected she might be the mom of the 2 victims, as her previous deal with in New Zealand was registered to the storage unit the place the suitcases have been saved for years.
Perry reported from Wellington, New Zealand.
