A Magistrate sent out a warning to repeat drunken drivers when he sent a 27-year-old Hamilton Parish man to jail for eight months yesterday.

Stacy Eugene Simpson, of Red Kiln Road, pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in addition to driving while disqualified on September 30.

Simpson, who was convicted of drunk driving on March 12 and disqualified from driving all vehicles for 12 months, invoked the wrath of Acting Senior Magistrate Carlisle Greaves.

"You are a serious menace to society," he said. "I am going to make history with you. I am going to send you to jail for eight months."

Crown counsel Shade Subair told the court that Police were on patrol at about 12.30 a.m. and came across a single vehicle accident on North Shore in Devonshire.

When they approached the car, they found it had been abandoned.

Police went to the car owner's residence and eventually arrested Simpson and took him to Hamilton Police Station.

There they noticed that he was unsteady on his feet and that his breath smelled of intoxicants.

Simpson, who refused a breathalyser test said: "It wasn't me, it wasn't me, I wasn't driving."

Bur Mr. Greaves said he was fed up with people showing no regard for the law.

Mr. Greaves said: "When you get up there, I suggest you get your problem fixed or you will meet me all the time."