Hit-and-run suspect charged in Northern Territory

A man has been charged over the hit-and-run death of a nine-year-old boy in the Northern Territory.

Jack Sultan-Page was riding his bike on Davoren Circuit in the Palmerston suburb of Moulden when he was hit by a car on Saturday afternoon.

• Two more arrests over Bali murder

He died in hospital not long afterwards.

An off-duty police officer spotted a vehicle matching its description parked in a driveway in a nearby suburb on Sunday, and police took a 21-year-old man in for questioning the same day.

He’s been charged with five offences, including hit and run, possession of cannabis and methamphetamine, and administering a dangerous drug.

Police bail has been refused, and he will appear in Darwin Magistrates Court on Tuesday or Wednesday.