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Neve Brissenden

Mother, son jailed for Stuart Highway fatal hit-and-run

Deborah Mason helped collect, move and conceal a woman's body in bushland. (Neve Brissenden/AAP PHOTOS)

A man who fatally struck an Indigenous woman with his car before enlisting his mother to help him dispose of the body has been sentenced to six years behind bars.

Joshua Mason, 25, was handed his sentence, which has parole eligibility after three-and-a-half years, in the NT Supreme Court on Wednesday, after previously pleading guilty to hit-and-run, perverting the course of justice and interfering with human remains.

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