“..DJ Mikey Havoc has a debt to society – and is paying it off the same way he makes his living.
The former Push Push rocker, now a 95bFM morning DJ, amassed at least $20,000 in traffic fines over a number of years.
To clear the debt, Havoc – whose real name is Michael Roberts – asked the Waitakere District Court to convert the fines into community work.
The system allows people to carry out between 40 and 400 hours of work instead.
The Department of Corrections website describes it as allowing “offenders [to] make compensation to society for their offending”.
Havoc confirmed he had arranged to clear the debt through work:..
.. “Shifting shit around and doing stuff other people can’t be f***ed doing”.
However, the Herald on Sunday has learned that Havoc’s punishment is remarkably similar to the work he does on radio in the morning –
- spinning records for students.
The Corrections Department said it would review that sentence this week, after it was brought to its attention.
Criminologist Greg Newbold said the practice of the courts converting fines into community work was an “easy way out”.
Havoc does the breakfast shift on 95bFM from the second floor of the Auckland University Student Association building.
Then, according to AUSA general manager Tom O’Connor, Havoc works off his fines by playing music for students on campus –
- in the quad outside the radio studios..”
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