Two plead guilty to drive-by toddler murder

Two men today pleaded guilty to murdering Wanganui toddler Jhia Te Tua in May last year.

Karl Unuka Check and Hayden Wallace made their pleas at a depositions hearing in Wellington District Court late today.

Two-year-old Jhia died on May 5 last year after shots were fired at her parents' home in the Wanganui suburb of Gonville.

The two men were among 12 charged with the murder in an alleged gang-related drive-by shooting.

The pair will be sentenced in the High Court in Wellington in May.