{"id":392611,"date":"2026-01-05T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:06:08","slug":"alleged-driver-in-fatal-darwin-hit-and-run-pairat-junsomran-bailed-allowed-by-court-to-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392611\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged driver in fatal Darwin hit-and-run Pairat Junsomran bailed, allowed by court to travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 61-year-old dual national has been granted bail over a fatal hit-and-run in Darwin, with the court giving him the green light to travel to Thailand this week.<\/p>\n

Long-term Darwin resident and Thai-Australian man Pairat Junsomran appeared at Darwin Local Court on Monday, where he broke down in tears as his bail application was heard before Judge John Bortoli.<\/p>\n

A 27-year-old Indigenous woman was struck by a car allegedly being driven by Mr Junsomran on Darwin’s Bagot Road on December 27.<\/p>\n

She died at the scene before emergency services arrived.<\/p>\n

\"Cars<\/p>\n

The woman was killed after being struck by a vehicle on Bagot Road in December. (ABC News: Michael Franchi)<\/p>\n

Following what police described as an extensive investigation into the incident, Mr Junsomran was arrested and charged with one count of hit-run causing death seven days after the crash.<\/p>\n

Mr Junsomran’s lawyer Samuel Naylor said his client had no criminal record and “very strong ties” to the Darwin community, with a family home in the city’s northern suburbs.<\/p>\n

“He does not present, really, a risk of re-offending or of flight,” Mr Naylor said.<\/p>\n

“The other thing I would mention is \u2026 his co-operation with police in this investigation, including voluntarily driving the vehicle to the station to undergo forensic testing.<\/p>\n

“There’s been some quite extensive cooperation.”<\/p>\n

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The alleged offender was granted bail in Darwin Local Court on Monday. (ABC News: Pete Garnish)<\/p>\n

Mr Junsomran’s family members, including some of his children, were in court for the bail hearing.<\/p>\n

Mr Naylor acknowledged the charge against his client was”very serious” with a 10-year prison sentence maximum penalty attached.<\/p>\n

Pre-arranged trip to Thailand allowed to proceed<\/p>\n

The court heard Mr Junsomran had a pre-arranged trip to Thailand booked, scheduled to leave Darwin on January 6.<\/p>\n

“To reiterate, it is a trip that has been completely independently organised prior to the supervening events between Christmas and New Years,” Mr Naylor said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve had a conversation with the family and with Mr Junsomran, to the effect that obviously these charges radically change the position of his personal circumstances.<\/p>\n

“I informed [them] I’d put that before the court before consideration.”<\/p>\n

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The court heard Pirat Junsomran had already booked a trip overseas before the fatal incident. (ABC News: Tristan Hooft)<\/p>\n

Prosecution lawyer Bryce Luck did not oppose bail or argue against Mr Junsomran being allowed to travel to Thailand.<\/p>\n

“Noting his ties to the [Darwin] community, we don’t see him as a flight risk,” he said.<\/p>\n

Judge Bortoli agreed to bail Mr Junsomran with a number of conditions, including that he surrender his passport following his return to Australia on February 7.<\/p>\n

He was also ordered to remain in the Northern Territory after his return from Thailand.<\/p>\n

Mr Junsomran was released from custody and his case has been adjourned until March 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 61-year-old dual national has been granted bail over a fatal hit-and-run in Darwin, with the court giving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,208161,210038,17192,210041,48752,102354,210036,48240,210037,210040,44,1098,210035,210039],"class_list":["post-392611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bagot-road","tag-bagot-road-hit-and-run","tag-bail","tag-bail-granted","tag-darwin-court","tag-darwin-hit-and-run","tag-darwin-hit-run","tag-hit-and-run","tag-hit-run-darwin","tag-hit-run-driver","tag-news","tag-nt","tag-pirat-junsomran","tag-woman-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}