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	Police Sure of Retrial in Monk Case By Lucy Ballinger ic Wales [Wales] July 10, 2005 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. Mr Kinsey's solicitor John Savery, based in Cardiff, said: "The appeal was successful. The Court of Appeal ordered a retrial, but whether that happens will depend on the police and prosecution and if they can get the witnesses together." But last night a spokeswoman for West Mercia Police said they were confident about the retrial. She said: "We will just wait for a new trial. We believe we have got a case and will go to a retrial based on the evidence of the initial prosecution. We carried out a full investigation before and won't be making any further inquiries now." At the appeal this week, Lord Justice Kay concluded that the convictions relating to three boys were "unsafe" due to a misdirection made by the trial judge to the jury. No date was set for the retrial. In the trial last year, Mr Kinsey was found to have sexually abused three boys over a period of two years while he was a Benedictine initiate at Belmont Abbey, Hereford, in the 1980s. He later was ordained as a priest. Mr Kinsey denied the charges, but the trainee monk admitted in court he had indulged in gay sexual practices as a priest - which are banned by the Catholic Church. Last night, Mr Kinsey's parents refused to comment from their Whitchurch home.