A former world biking champion is going through as much as seven years in jail after admitting a cost in relation to a automobile crash that killed his spouse – fellow Olympic bicycle owner Melissa Hoskins.
Rohan Dennis was arrested and charged with inflicting dying by harmful driving after Hoskins was hit by a automobile exterior their house within the suburb of Medindie in Adelaide, Australia, on 30 December 2023.
The retired bicycle owner was additionally charged with driving with out due care and endangering life.
The 34-year-old appeared in courtroom on Tuesday and admitted the lesser aggravated cost of making chance of hurt.
Jane Abbey KC mentioned: “There was no intention of Mr Dennis to harm his wife and this charge does not charge him with responsibility for her death.”
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Dennis celebrates together with his medal on the rostrum after profitable the person time trial occasion on the world championships in 2018
Dennis, from Adelaide, might be sentenced at a later date.
It carries a most penalty of seven years in jail.
Hoskins, 32, initially from Kalamunda in western Australia, was taken to the Royal Adelaide hospital with severe accidents after the crash however died in a single day.
She had married Dennis in 2018 they usually had two kids.
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Melissa Hoskins on the Olympic Velodrome in London in 2012
Hoskins was a retired observe and street racing bicycle owner who was a member of the pursuit crew that completed fourth on the 2012 Olympics in London.
She was additionally a part of the pursuit crew which completed fifth on the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Dennis, who retired from skilled biking in 2023, received levels on the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana.
He additionally claimed world championship titles on the street and observe and was a part of the Australian crew that received silver within the crew pursuit on the 2012 Olympics.
