Is Roger McClay's community service sentence appropriate?

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The judge who sentenced disgraced ex-MP Roger McClay to 300 hours community service has urged him to pick up litter or clean up graffiti.

Judge Jan Doogue said she had no authority to order how Mr McClay served his sentence, but that community work would be appropriate given Keep New Zealand Beautiful was one of the charities he defrauded.

She imposed the maximum sentence of 400 hours community work, but McClay received a 25 per cent discount for the early guilty pleas to the three representative fraud charges.

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