A father-of-one who got a suspended jail term for driving over a female police officer in a taxi was under lock and key last night after his sentence was activated due to further road offences.Gladwyn Cann, of Southampton, had previously been given a four-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, for reckless driving and injuring a police officer.Yesterday, Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner jailed the 29-year-old for three months after he admitted driving while disqualified, driving an uninsured vehicle, driving an unlicensed vehicle and driving while impaired in the early hours of Sunday. He was stopped by police after he turned off Church Road onto St Anne’s Road, Southampton, at about 2.20am.The court heard Cann had a long history of traffic offences, including driving in a manner dangerous to the public. At one point he was summoned to court on two successive days for two separate but similar offences.Cann told Mr Warner he had an excuse for this weekend’s offences. “I’ve just had a son and he had a temperature: a fever, it was over a hundred degrees. I’m taking responsibility for my actions but he’s my first child, my son, and I didn’t know what else to do. I told police my child was sick, they asked to see my hands.”Mr Warner told the defendant: “The police have no record of your baby story. It’s a whole pile of rubbish and I don’t accept it. All you told the police was that you were taking a friend home.” The defendant replied: “It’s my word against their word, your Honour.”Mr Warner then pulled out another stack of papers and reminded Cann of several unpaid traffic fines, amounting to more than $3,000, stemming from his last set of court appearances.“These fines are for the same thing that you haven’t paid since the last time you were here and you’re foolish enough to not only drive over and over again, but this time you drove when you were impaired, and not only impaired you drove an unlicensed, uninsured vehicle as well, while you were disqualified. Now you come tell me some foolishness which I totally reject.”Cann told the Magistrate: “I’m doing the best I can. I’m looking for a job. I can’t find any work. I’m seeking Financial Assistance so I can take care of my son and I’m paying my rent.”Mr Warner replied: “What you have here before me today doesn’t make any sense. You’re already on probation. You have already been charged with driving in a manner dangerous, in not just a car but a taxi, a public vehicle too. And when that occurred you rolled over the female officer who stopped you. You injured her too.”The Senior Magistrate then rolled off a series of fines that ran close to $5,000 when the unpaid fines for previous offences were factored in. Mr Warner also disqualified Cann from driving all vehicles until 2014.Reflecting on Cann’s record, Mr Warner said: “For reckless driving and injuring a cop you were given a four-month prison sentence suspended for two years. I’m activating the sentence given by [Magistrate] Mr [Khamisi] Tokumbo. I’m sending you to jail for three months. And you will only have to pay $2,750 in fines before you come out.”