{"id":805349,"date":"2026-07-17T04:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805349\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T04:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:12:26","slug":"rohan-dennis-pleads-guilty-to-driving-while-banned-for-five-years-over-crash-that-killed-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/805349\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohan Dennis pleads guilty to driving while banned for five years over crash that killed wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former professional cyclist and two-time Olympian Rohan Dennis has pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old was banned from driving for five years after he was handed a suspended sentence last year for the events leading up to the death of his Olympian wife Melissa Hoskins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ms Hoskins died after she was struck by a car driven by Dennis outside their family home in the inner-northern Adelaide suburb of Medindie.<\/p>\n

Police caught Dennis driving last month not far from where his wife died two-and-a-half years ago.<\/p>\n

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Rohan Dennis was reported for driving while disqualified in June. (Supplied: SA Police)<\/p>\n

At the time he was caught, SA Police said he had two children as passengers in the vehicle<\/a>, which they said had been impounded for 28 days.<\/p>\n

Dennis today appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court, which has referred the driving disqualified charge up to the District Court.<\/p>\n

He was stone-faced and silent as his lawyer entered a guilty plea, on his behalf, to the charge of driving while disqualified.<\/p>\n

\"Former<\/p>\n

Dennis will return to court in September. (ABC News: Eva Blandis)<\/p>\n

Dennis made a swift exit from the Adelaide Magistrates Court and was picked up by a waiting Uber.<\/p>\n

He did not make any comments despite questions put to him by waiting media.<\/p>\n

Breach of bond referred to District Court<\/p>\n

In 2024, Dennis pleaded guilty to an aggravated charge of creating likelihood of harm over the events leading up to the December 2023 death of his wife.<\/p>\n

Ms Hoskins, 32, was also a two-time Olympian and a renowned road and track cyclist.<\/p>\n

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Melissa Hoskins died after she was struck by a car driven by Dennis. (Facebook)<\/p>\n

After her death, Dennis was charged with causing death by dangerous driving and an aggravated charge of driving without due care, but those charges were later dropped by prosecutors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was handed a 17-month prison term by South Australia’s District Court, which was suspended upon him entering a two-year good-behaviour bond.<\/p>\n

The Magistrates Court today agreed for the charge of driving while disqualified to be dealt with in the state’s District Court, along with his breach of bond.<\/p>\n

\"Former<\/p>\n

Dennis leaving the Adelaide Magistrates Court after pleading guilty. (ABC News: Eva Blandis)<\/p>\n

The court also heard that prominent defence barrister David Edwardson KC would be representing the 36-year-old.<\/p>\n

He will next appear in the District Court in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former professional cyclist and two-time Olympian Rohan Dennis has pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified. The 36-year-old was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37489,64,63,502,9485,198023,271937,184177,58365,271936,271938,85,240844],"class_list":["post-805349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adelaide-magistrates-court","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-children","tag-cyclist","tag-disqualified","tag-melissa-hoskins","tag-olympian","tag-passenger","tag-professional-cyclist","tag-rohan-dennis","tag-sports","tag-suspended-sentence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805349","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=805349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}