A total of 17 people pleaded guilty to motoring offences on the day of their trial before a summary court from 2013 and 2017.

The figure was revealed by the Attorney General in Tynwald this week following a question for written answer from Jason Moorhouse MHK (Arbory, Castletown and Malew).

Mr Moorhouse had asked how many times guilty pleas were made at the start of the trials related to motoring offences.

The AG John Quinn revealed that in 2013, there were five such cases, in 2014 there were three, four in 2015, one in 2016 and four in 2017.

And it had not happened at all in the General Gaol court during the same period.

Mr Moorhouse has previously queried why the acquittal rate for those charged with motoring offences is so low.

Of 2,862 cases brought before the courts in the last five years, only 14 resulted in not guilty verdicts after trial.