Simon Milliner turned up to a flat in Sydney's west with a bottle of wine and a plan to rape an 11-year-old girl pimped out by her mother A paedophile had his jail time slashed this week after he told a court his 'crushing' five year sentence could leave him with a 'sense of hopelessness'. Simon Milliner, 47, was carrying a bottle of wine when he turned up to the Sydney home of a woman he had been sharing vile sex fantasies with online. Milliner thought he was attending Sarah's Westmead flat to rape her 11-year-old daughter that Tuesday night about three years ago. He had sent the woman excited Skype messages for months. 'I have a big bed, we can all stay cuddled up,' one said. The Leichhardt man even mailed Sarah a sex toy in the post. But when Millner arrived to knock on the door of a brick apartment on April 5, 2016, he was stunned to find it was New South Wales police officers at the door. He had no idea he had been speaking to undercover investigators all along, nor that his fingerprints were all over the vibrator he had mailed straight to Strike Force Trawler detectives. Alarmed, Milliner tried to flee into a neighbouring apartment block, ditched his bottle of wine and later halfheartedly claimed to police that he was there to 'stop' a mother pimping out her child. That charade is now over. Milliner, an electric plane manufacturer, pleaded guilty to two charges and was sentenced to five years' jail time last year. But in a decision published on Monday, the Court of Criminal Appeal cut that prison time by a year. Gloved officers take away Simon Milliner from the Westmead unit where he turned up with a bottle of wine and vile fantasies of raping a child Milliner's lawyers had gone to court to argue his jail sentences for his two charges were 'manifestly excessive'. Their reasons included that 'he was encouraged to participate in a fantasy website by an undercover operative', that 'no child ever existed', he had no criminal record and suffered PTSD from abuse in his family earlier in life. His lawyers argued the sentencing judge had erred in calculating Milliner's total sentence for his two charges. Milliner had pleaded guilty to the offences of attempting to procure a child for sex, and travelling to meet a child he had groomed, the court was told. Milliner, from Leichhardt, was handed a minimum five year non parole period, but his lawyers argued that sentence punished him twice, because the two crimes overlapped. The original prosecution case included sexually explicit messages about raping the girl and having sex with the mother so vile they cannot be published. He also sent the 'mother' a naked picture of himself. During his arrest, Milliner tried to flee into a neighbouring apartment block, ditched his bottle of wine and later halfheartedly claimed to police that he was there to 'stop' a mother pimping out her child Detectives then searched the area for a bottle of wine that Milliner disposed of upon seeing police at the unit Milliner's defence lawyers said he had shown remorse and shame - and argued to the Court of Criminal Appeal that his sentence had been 'accumulated', or calculated, wrong The defence had handed the sentencing judge letters of support from family, plus a note from a Hillsong prison volunteer which said he is now a committed Christian with remorse for what he did. 'He is now a committed Christian who intends to continue providing support to other inmates, as well as continuing with this Christian faith on his release from custody,' the court was told. On appeal, the defence argued that Milliner's original five year sentence may be 'crushing ... in that it will leave (Milliner) with a sense of hopelessness and destroy any expectation of a useful life after release.' Crown prosecutors agreed the judge's total calculated sentence was 'significant' but there had been no issue in his 'broad sentencing discretion'. They argued his two charges were distinct - with one relating to the online conversations, and another to his grooming by turning up at the apartment. The panel of judges found in favour of Milliner's argument and quashed his original sentence, trimmed his jail term from five years to four. With time served, Milliner will be eligible for parole in April next year. All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility