A serial traffic offender has been jailed for three months, fined $5,400 and handed 20 demerit points to add to the 51 he had already accumulated.

Stacy Simpson, 24, admitted he was riding his bike drunk when he was arrested by the Police at 1.45 a.m on Monday. It was the third time in less than three months that he'd been caught violating the rules of the road.

When Simpson was brought to Magistrates' Court later that morning, Prosecutor Cindy Clarke explained that Police spotted him riding his motorbike east along Kindley Field Road in St. George's at high speed.

When they signalled him to stop, he turned around and rode off in the opposite direction.

When he was eventually brought to a halt, the officers noticed he appeared to be drunk and Simpson admitted: "I had about four Hennessy's." When he was arrested he made an apparent reference to Friday night's violence in St. David's, telling the Police: "I'm not the one shooting people."

He was taken to Southside Police station where he refused to do a breath test, commenting: "I'm drunk I'm not blowing."

Simpson, of Cottage Hill Road, Hamilton Parish, pleaded not guilty to driving while impaired but guilty to refusing to provide a sample of breath and riding with no license and insurance while disqualified from driving.

Ms Clarke said the pleas were acceptable, and offered no evidence on the impaired charge. She explained that Simpson was banned from driving for a year on May 14 after being caught drunk-driving. He was fined $1,000 on that occasion and handed a three month sentence, suspended for a year.

On October 8 he was convicted of riding his bike while disqualified and fined $1,000. He's yet to pay the fine, telling the court yesterday: "I ain't got it".

On November 2 he was caught once again, riding the same bike without a helmet, while unlicensed, uninsured and disqualified from driving. He pleaded guilty to charges relating to the November 2 incident yesterday as well.

Simpson claimed he'd decided to ride drunk on Monday as "something really important popped up. But I know I was in the wrong. I weren't supposed to be riding. I apologise to the court. My brother was kind of stuck. He ran out of gas and I was going to help him. Yes, I was drunk."

Defence lawyer Marc Daniels suggested that Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner should impound Simpson's bike rather than jailing him. But Mr. Warner said he does not have that power and Ms Clarke said the bike in question is owned by someone else.

Jailing Simpson for three months and banning him from driving for three years, Mr. Warner said: "He has total disregard for this court."

He warned that if he does not pay the fines then he must serve six months in prison instead. He also meted out 20 demerit points taking the total number of points on Simpson's license to 71.