Accused child sex abuser Bill Spedding will no longer have to report daily to NSW police, after a court relaxed his bail conditions.
Spedding, who appeared at Campbelltown Local Court on Tuesday, successfully argued the 60-kilometre round trip he took to report to Port Macquarie police every day was arduous.
He will now only need to check in with officers on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Spedding, 64, has been charged with numerous offences, including five counts of sexual intercourse with a child, relating to the alleged abuse of two girls, then aged three and six.
Police investigated him over the alleged offences in 1987, but he was only charged this year after police questioned him over the disappearance of three-year-old William Tyrrell.
William was last seen playing outside his grandmother's house in Port Macquarie in September 2014.
Spedding has denied any involvement in the disappearance of the boy, and no charges have been laid against him in that matter.
In his previous Supreme Court bail application in April, the Crown said police could not locate the initial 1987 investigation papers concerning Spedding's case.
Spedding's defence said on Wednesday this makes the case against him "weak".
Since he has been compliant with the bail conditions since April and has "religiously" travelled six hours a day to see police, his defence argued his bail conditions should be relaxed.
But the Crown argued the 64-year-old's offences are serious enough that the Supreme Court saw fit to place such bail conditions and they therefore should not be altered.
In granting him bail, however, Magistrate Robert Rabbidge said he was somewhat "reassured" by Spedding's strict adherence to his bail conditions and allowed him to report three times a week.
The alleged offences first came to light in 1987, when one of the children complained to her mother of discomfort, a court has heard previously.
The mother noticed bruising to the girl's vagina, after she said "it was Bill", police allege.
The matter will return to court on November 18.
