CONVICTED child pornography offender Andy Muirhead has been released from prison after serving six months of a seven-month sentence.
The Mercury understands that Muirhead was released from the Hobart Reception Prison in late January after routine remissions cut one month from his jail term.
A spokesman for the state's Prisons Service would not discuss Muirhead's release, citing a policy not to comment on individual cases.
Muirhead was taken into custody in August last year.
The former ABC radio and television presenter pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to possessing and accessing child exploitation material after being caught with thousands of child pornography images he downloaded from the internet.
In October, Chief Justice Ewan Crawford sentenced Muirhead to three months in jail for the state possession offence to be followed by four months for the federal accessing offences.
Steve Fisher, from Beyond Abuse, said he was appalled to learn of Muirhead's early release, saying it did not send the right message to sex offenders.
"What reason could they possible give him to have a month off his sentence?" Mr Fisher said.
Muirhead claimed that working on the popular ABC Collectors program and as a Hobart breakfast radio host contributed to an "unacceptably high" level of stress and looking at child porn had helped him relax.
He was charged after Federal Police agents seized his personal computer on June 8, 2010.
Muirhead had originally pleaded not guilty but, after admitting his guilt, an expression of his remorse was read to the court.
"Words can't describe how embarrassed and ashamed I am," he said.
"What I did was shameful, reckless and stupid."
Muirhead will be subject to a $5000 good behaviour bond for the next three years and is also listed on the state's sex offender register for the next five years.
david.killick@news.com.au
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