In the High Court at Rotorua, Lovatt's lawyer, Paul Wicks, appealed the second sentence, claiming it made the sentence as a whole ``manifestly excessive''.
He submitted the district court judge had made an error in his approach to sentencing and should have looked at what the appropriate starting point would have been if Lovatt was being sentenced on all the offences at once.
Rotorua Crown prosecutor Amanda Gordon acknowledged the second sentence had been "at the stern end of the range'' and was more than the Crown had sought.
Justice Peter Woodhouse allowed the appeal and reduced the two-year sentence in relation to the third victim to one year.
"I have been persuaded, albeit with some hesitation, that the overall sentence of six years three months is manifestly excessive,'' he said. "It was borderline.''