Rohan Dennis has entered a responsible plea to an aggravated cost of making chance of hurt within the Adelaide Magistrates Court docket on Tuesday and can later face sentencing on the District Court docket over the cost, in keeping with ABC Information.
Prices had been laid towards Dennis earlier this 12 months as he was allegedly driving a automobile which struck Melissa Hoskins. Hoskins, who was married to Dennis, was taken to hospital after being hit and died the subsequent day.
The unique fees listed for Tuesday’s listening to, which had been delayed for six weeks to permit for additional negotiations, had been inflicting demise by harmful driving and an aggravated offence of driving with out due care. Each these fees had been dropped.
ABC Information mentioned the courtroom heard that “prosecutors accepted the plea to the brand new cost as a result of Dennis was reckless, and didn’t intend to kill his spouse”.
The aggravated cost of making chance of hurt that Dennis entered a responsible plea to on Tuesday comes with a most jail time period of seven years in keeping with the most recent model of the Legal Regulation Consolidation Act 1935. Underneath the earlier, now dropped, fees the utmost had been 15 years in jail.
When the incident that resulted in Hoskins’ demise occurred the then 32-year-old and Dennis had simply moved again to Adelaide with their two youngsters as he had simply retired from skilled biking after a profession which included two world time trial titles.
A wave of grief and shock washed via the biking neighborhood after the demise of Hoskins, who had raced on the observe and highway till retiring in 2017. She competed within the Staff Pursuit for Australia at two Olympic Video games and took a world title within the occasion in 2015.
