The South Korean woman charged after the bodies of two children were found in suitcases has said she is "going to prove her innocence".
She appeared at the High Court at Auckland briefly on Wednesday morning but as she was led back to the cells she said "I'm going to prove my innocence".
The woman, the children's mother, was earlier extradited from South Korea after an international hunt.
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She has pleaded not guilty to two charges of murder and is set to go to trial in Auckland in 2024.
Back in March, Justice Anne Hinton refused to grant the woman continued name suppression, however her lawyer immediately appealed to the Court of Appeal, with that hearing set for Monday.
The bodies of the two children were in August found in suitcases that had been held in a Papatoetoe storage facility for years.
They were discovered by members of the public who bought the contents of the storage locker in an auction.
They were not aware the children’s bodies were inside until they brought the suitcases home.
Strict suppression orders prevent media from revealing the children’s identities.
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Those orders were made by the coroner following an application from members of the children’s wider family.
The woman was arrested at a southern port city of South Korea in September, based on a domestic court warrant issued after New Zealand requested her provisional arrest.
South Korean police said the woman was born in South Korea and later moved to New Zealand, where she gained citizenship.
Immigration records showed she returned to South Korea in 2018.
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