Rohan Dennis had a quick look in an Adelaide magistrates courtroom on Wednesday to face expenses in connection to the demise of his spouse, former Olympian Melissa Hoskins.
Dennis’ attorneys requested a six-week adjournment to permit negotiations with the prosecutors to proceed.
Justice of the Peace Justin Wickens agreed to the postponement and set a date for the following listening to on 10 December. In response to experiences, Dennis didn’t remark and left the courtroom.
Hoskins was struck by Dennis’ automobile exterior their residence in Medindie in December of 2023 and later died within the Royal Adelaide Hospital resulting from her accidents.
In August, prosecutors confirmed they might proceed with expenses of inflicting demise by harmful driving and driving with out due care. If discovered responsible, Dennis faces a most of 15 years in jail for the primary and 12 months for the second.
Each Dennis and Hoskins had profitable careers in biking. Hoskins was a member of the Australian girls’s staff pursuit squad within the Olympic Video games in 2012 and 2016 and was a part of the nation’s world champion pursuit squad in 2015.
Dennis is a two-time world champion and Olympic bronze medalist within the time trial and received levels of all three Grand Excursions throughout his 11-year street profession.
Hoskins was remembered in January in a service the place her father mentioned, “We’re celebrating a life at present that was minimize manner too quick. Melissa was simply warming up … her greatest performances have been but to return. We’re grieving, all of us. There ought to have been extra.”
