Justin Bieber has been offered an escape route out of doing community service over graffiti - if he sings Christmas carols.

As previously reported, the 19-year-old Canadian recently angered local council officials in Australia by spraying graffiti on an exterior wall of a hotel.

Whilst the establishment was happy to have the doodles on their wall, the council told Bieber to remove the cartoon.

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate has now given the singer the chance to dodge community service by singing carols at an official ceremony next month. He said:

"If a normal person did that they'd be serving 80 to 100 hours of community service. Just come and clean it up and we'll be happy with you. Alternatively come and sing at our mayoral Christmas carols on the seventh of December for an hour and I'll let you go."

The mayor added: "The last thing we want is to have graffiti glorified and more young people thinking its a cool thing to do." Watch Justin Bieber perform live below: