Mother and son allegedly returned to scene of Darwin hit-and-run to move victim’s body, court told

Joshua Mason, 23, and his 50-year-old mother, Deborah Mason, likely to plead guilty after victim's leg was found on Northern Territory highway, lawyer says

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A young man allegedly fatally struck a pedestrian with his car before his mother helped load the woman's body into a ute and the two buried it in bushland outside Darwin, a court has been told.

The discovery of the Indigenous victim's dismembered leg on the Northern Territory's Stuart Highway on Tuesday morning triggered a police investigation which lead to the pair's arrest the next day.

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