July 10, 2005

Police sure of retrial in monk case

WALES
ic Wales

Jul 10 2005

Lucy Ballinger, Wales on Sunday

A WELSH monk who had his convictions quashed for sexually abusing schoolboys will face a retrial police said yesterday.

Roman Catholic priest John Michael Kinsey, 47, of Whitchurch, Cardiff, was jailed for five years at Worcester Crown Court last March after being found guilty of indecently assaulting three teenagers over two years while training to become a monk at Belmont Abbey in Hereford.

Now he has been released on bail to his parents' address in Cardiff following the ruling to quash his convictions at London's Criminal Appeal Court this week.

Posted by kshaw at July 10, 2005 08:56 AM