Shamed Olympic cyclist Rohan Dennis has admitted to getting behind the wheel while banned from driving.<\/p>\n
Dennis, of Medindie, pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified at a brief hearing at Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday.<\/p>\n
It comes after he was handed a five-year driving ban and a suspended jail sentence following the tragic death of his wife Melissa Hoskins, who died after being struck by a car outside their home.<\/p>\n
The two-time Olympian, who claimed a silver medal at the London 2012 games, arrived at court four hours before his scheduled appearance.<\/p>\n
The charges related to an incident in June, when Dennis was pulled over while driving in Adelaide.<\/p>\n
At the time of the arrest, police said that he had two children in the vehicle with him.<\/p>\n
Originally scheduled for 2.15pm, the matter was called on early, with Dennis entering a guilty plea, charged with driving a vehicle while disqualified.<\/p>\n
As he left the court, Dennis swerved questions from the media pack, before climbing into the back seat of a waiting Toyota and being driven away.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old remained silent as faced a volley of questions from waiting journalists.<\/p>\n
It comes more than two years after the death of his fellow cyclist and wife Ms Hoskins, who died in December 2023.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Dennis pleaded guilty to an aggravated charge of creating likelihood of harm relating to the crash outside the pair\u2019s home in Adelaide\u2019s inner suburbs.<\/p>\n
The tragedy occurred following an argument between the couple, with Ms Hoskins struck by a car driven by Dennis outside of the property.<\/p>\n
He had initially been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and driving without due care – however, these charges were dropped by prosecutors.<\/p>\n
He was handed a 17-month jail sentence following the prior case and banned from driving for five years. His sentence was suspended alongside a two-year good behaviour bond.<\/p>\n
The judge in the earlier case, however, acknowledged that he was not responsible for his wife\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, he further caused controversy when he posted a photograph of a Porsche on Instagram with a caption describing it as an \u201cabsolute weapon\u201d.<\/p>\n
He was arrested on June 11 after driving a car, which has since been impounded, in Adelaide.<\/p>\n
The latest case was adjourned until September, when the charge of driving while disqualified will be dealt with in the state\u2019s district court, alongside the breach of his bond.<\/p>\n
Previously, he had been told that breaching his bond would likely result in a custodial sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shamed Olympic cyclist Rohan Dennis has admitted to getting behind the wheel while banned from driving. Dennis, of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[379323,379368,379355,379349,379352,379330,379370,379322,379333,379328,377677,379374,379329,379325,379365,379332,379334,379338,379327,377894,379343,379366,3443,37489,379321,379361,379347,379364,379353,377711,64,63,379346,17652,7882,1108,33682,1300,379312,39717,379356,379358,23817,379340,379313,378039,379317,99203,379371,379316,379319,379320,379372,379339,378245,379348,1202,19433,345368,379350,379337,354009,379336,379359,187436,184177,1158,379318,59906,43157,379363,379369,85,379324,379326,379315,379344,378599,378543,379331,376740,379342,379335,376785,379362,376757,379373,379367,165057,376539,379360,379314,379341,379351,379354,379345,379357,22639],"class_list":["post-807258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-s-death","tag-s-death-earlier-this-year","tag-s-district-court","tag-s-home","tag-s-inner-suburbs-the-tragedy","tag-2-15pm","tag-36-year-old","tag-a-17-month-jail-sentence","tag-a-brief-hearing","tag-a-caption","tag-a-car","tag-a-custodial-sentence","tag-a-five-year-driving-ban","tag-a-guilty-plea","tag-a-photograph","tag-a-porsche","tag-a-silver-medal","tag-a-suspended-jail-sentence","tag-a-two-year-good-behaviour-bond-the-judge","tag-a-vehicle","tag-a-volley","tag-a-waiting-toyota","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-magistrates-court","tag-adelaide-at","tag-adelaide-the","tag-an-absolute-weapon","tag-an-aggravated-charge","tag-an-argument","tag-an-incident","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-away-the","tag-ban","tag-controversy","tag-court","tag-dangerous-driving","tag-death","tag-december-2023-in-2024","tag-dennis","tag-dennis-outside","tag-disqualified-as","tag-driving","tag-due-care","tag-five-years","tag-four-hours","tag-friday-it","tag-harm","tag-him-originally","tag-his-bond","tag-his-bond-previously","tag-his-fellow-cyclist-and-wife-ms-hoskins","tag-his-scheduled-appearance-the-charges","tag-his-sentence","tag-his-wife","tag-his-wife-melissa-hoskins","tag-instagram","tag-june","tag-june-11","tag-latest-case","tag-likelihood","tag-medindie","tag-more-than-two-years","tag-ms-hoskins","tag-newswire-news","tag-olympian","tag-police","tag-prosecutors-he","tag-questions","tag-september","tag-shamed-olympian-rohan-dennis","tag-shamed-olympic-cyclist-rohan-dennis","tag-sports","tag-the-arrest","tag-the-back-seat","tag-the-breach","tag-the-charge","tag-the-couple","tag-the-court","tag-the-crash","tag-the-death","tag-the-earlier-case","tag-the-london-2012-games","tag-the-matter","tag-the-media-pack","tag-the-pair","tag-the-prior-case","tag-the-property-he","tag-the-state","tag-the-time","tag-the-tragic-death","tag-the-vehicle","tag-the-wheel","tag-their-home-the-two-time-olympian","tag-these-charges","tag-two-children","tag-waiting-journalists-it","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807258","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=807258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}