The ACT's top court has more than halved the jail term imposed on a man who admitted "hoarding" child abuse material, after prosecutors conceded the sentence was excessive.
Retired information technology worker Philip Fletcher Mertell was sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court in March to six years and three months in jail, with a non-parole period of two years.
Mertell, aged in his late 60s, had previously pleaded guilty to seven charges of possessing child abuse material and two counts of accessing it.
