An NRL player at the centre of a perjury case against a former police officer believes the sentence handed to the ex-cop should have been harsher.

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Known as Officer A for legal reasons, he was on Friday given a one-year intensive corrections order, similar to a suspended jail sentence.

The officer pleaded guilty to lying in evidence given during the high-profile rape trial of then-St George player Jack de Belin and co-accused Callan Sinclair in 2020.

"It was obviously a little bit light, but it is what it is," de Belin said outside Wollongong District Court following the sentence.

"What's kept Cal and myself so strong throughout this is ou

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