Former world champion bicycle owner Rohan Dennis has negotiated a plea cope with prosecutors over the dying of his spouse, fellow Australian Olympian Melissa Hoskins.
The 34-year-old Dennis is not going to be held accountable for Hoskins’ dying however has pleaded responsible to a cost that carries a most penalty of seven years in jail.
Dennis appeared in Adelaide Magistrates Court docket on Tuesday to reply costs of harmful driving inflicting dying and an aggravated cost of driving with out due care.
Dennis was arrested after Hoskins, 32, was struck by his automobile in entrance of their house at Medindie in Adelaide’s north on Dec. 30, 2023. Hoskins suffered severe accidents within the crash and died at Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Dennis’ lawyer Jane Abbey advised the court docket that the protection and prosecutors had agreed to drop the unique costs and an aggravated cost of making probability of hurt would as an alternative be laid.
“What is agreed that will happen today is that there will be a plea to count three — the original charges will be dropped,” she advised Justice of the Peace Justin Wickens.
The couple had been engaged in 2017 and had been married in 2018. They’ve two youngsters.
Dennis, who pleaded responsible to the cost, was launched on persevering with bail and dedicated to the District Court docket for sentencing on Jan. 24.
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Hoskins competed on the 2012 and 2016 Olympics on the observe within the staff pursuit and was within the squad that gained the 2015 world title within the occasion.
Dennis, who retired on the finish of the 2023 season, gained two world titles within the highway time trial, in addition to silver within the staff pursuit on the London Olympics and bronze within the highway time trial on the Tokyo Olympics.
He grew to become the seventh Australian to put on the yellow jersey as race chief on the Tour de France by profitable the opening time trial in 2015, setting a race report for his common pace.
