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Dennis added: \u201cYes, it was an accident. I loved Melissa, and the last thing I ever wanted was to hurt her. Never in my life has any physical aggression crossed my mind in any disagreement with Melissa.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dennis targets media conduct and coverage<\/p>\n
Much of the statement focuses not on the incident itself, but on Dennis\u2019 account of how he and his family were treated in the aftermath. He claims journalists approached him shortly after Hoskins\u2019 funeral and made comments in front of his young child that he described as \u201cdisgusting\u201d, including questions about how it felt knowing his children would grow up without their mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey greeted me and my family at the airport not 24hrs after my wife\u2019s funeral,\u201d Dennis wrote, before adding that some of the remarks made in front of his daughter were unacceptable.<\/p>\n
He also alleges that members of the media followed his family and tracked their movements, saying this had placed his children in \u201cstressful situations\u201d despite public claims of concern for their well-being. \u201cThey happily stalk, follow and harass not just adults in my family but even when the kids are involved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Hoskins was an accomplished cyclist in her own right<\/p>\n
\u201cWanted me to look like the husband who abused his wife\u201d<\/p>\n
At the centre of Dennis\u2019 frustration is the suggestion that coverage of the case has framed him in a way he strongly rejects. \u201cThe narrative which the media ran with was clear \u2014 they wanted me to look like the husband who abused his wife,\u201d he wrote, adding that he has \u201calways been against any sort of abuse against women\u201d.<\/p>\n
He also pushed back on interpretations of the incident itself, stating that he never used a vehicle as a weapon and that this was not established in legal proceedings. \u201cThey know I never intentionally or unintentionally used a vehicle as a weapon. Never was it legally said that I did either,\u201d Dennis said, adding that available footage supports his position.<\/p>\n
During court proceedings, it was established that Hoskins had climbed onto the bonnet of the vehicle as Dennis attempted to leave the scene, before falling and sustaining fatal injuries. Prosecutors accepted that he had not intended to cause her death, but that his actions in driving the vehicle created a dangerous situation.<\/p>\n
Drawing a line under the coverage<\/p>\n
Dennis concluded by saying his intention in speaking publicly was to highlight both his own experience and that of his children, rather than to revisit the details of the incident itself. \u201cThis is simply to point out the false narrative which the media created about me for clicks,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
He ended the statement with a direct message to journalists and media organisations, calling for privacy for his family moving forward. \u201cTime for all you so called journalists and media outlets to back off and leave my family alone.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dennis added: \u201cYes, it was an accident. I loved Melissa, and the last thing I ever wanted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,180236,180235,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-516511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-melissa-hoskins","tag-rohan-dennis","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}