{"id":879262,"date":"2026-09-04T04:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879262\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:12:12","slug":"rohan-dennis-seeks-to-have-new-judge-after-driving-while-disqualified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879262\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohan Dennis seeks to have new judge after driving while disqualified"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former professional cyclist Rohan Dennis will seek to have a new sentencing judge hear his case for driving while disqualified.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old pleaded guilty to the charge in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dennis was given a suspended sentence and a five-year ban for driving last year <\/a>for the events leading up to the death of his wife Melissa Hoskins.<\/p>\n

Ms Hoskins, a two-time Olympian cyclist, was struck by a car driven by Dennis outside the couple’s Medindie home in Adelaide’s inner-north in December 2023.<\/p>\n

In June, police caught Dennis driving<\/a>, with two children as passengers in the vehicle, not far from where his wife died.<\/p>\n

Today in South Australia\u2019s District Court, his lawyer Craig Caldicott said he intended to apply for a recusal of the sentencing judge.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

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

Speaking outside court, Mr Caldicott said he was “of the belief” that the application was \u201cappropriate\u201d in the circumstances.<\/p>\n

“There’s nothing wrong with this judge, he’s a very good judge,” Mr Caldicott said.<\/p>\n

“There’s a thing called the law and we follow the law and we do what is appropriate in all these cases.”<\/p>\n

When asked about the reason for a recusal application, Mr Caldicott said: “I can’t go into that at the moment”.<\/p>\n

“We’ll be filing written submissions just before we appear in court on the 22nd [of September].”<\/p>\n

Mr Caldicott said there was a possibility that Dennis could be jailed for the offending.<\/p>\n

“You should be well aware that driving while disqualified, people go to jail all the time,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Melissa Hoskins died in December 2023 after she was struck by a car driven by her husband Rohan Dennis. (Facebook)<\/p>\n

After Ms Hoskins’s 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

Instead, Dennis pleaded guilty to an aggravated charge of creating likelihood of harm.<\/p>\n

He was handed a 17-month prison term, which was suspended upon him entering a two-year good-behaviour bond.<\/p>\n

The breach of bond matter will return to court later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former professional cyclist Rohan Dennis will seek to have a new sentencing judge hear his case for driving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,1108,784,9485,198023,73496,23817,22623,354009,271937,184177,271938,448544,85,22639],"class_list":["post-879262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-court","tag-cycling","tag-cyclist","tag-disqualified","tag-district-court","tag-driving","tag-husband","tag-medindie","tag-melissa-hoskins","tag-olympian","tag-rohan-dennis","tag-ryan-dennis","tag-sports","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879262","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=879262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}