AN AUSTRALIAN television journalist was freed from Changi Prison on Tuesday after serving nearly seven months of his 10-month sentence for drug offences, a prison spokesman said.

Peter Lloyd, the former New Delhi-based correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), was jailed on Dec 2 after pleading guilty to all three drug charges.

'It is confirmed that he was released today,' a spokesman for Changi Prison told AFP without giving other details.

Judge Hamidah Ibrahim on Dec 2 sentenced Lloyd to eight months for possessing the stimulant methamphetamine and another eight months for consuming it. The sentences were to run concurrently.

Lloyd received an additional two months in jail for possessing drug paraphernalia stained with ketamine, an anaesthetic which is commonly used at dance parties.

It was unclear whether Lloyd would return to Australia. -- AFP