BLUSHING burglar Michael Giles raided a bridal shop and drove off with £19,000 worth of dresses ? and a mannequin in his passenger seat. The 20-year-old Tavistock man made repeated trips to the shop and stacked 20 dresses and the dummy into his Ford Fiesta. He then made off from pursuing police in marked cars who eventually caught him with his stolen load 15 miles away. Mr Giles, of Beech Close, Tavistock, on Tuesday admitted burgling the Feathers of Isca bridal shop in Exeter at 5.20 one March morning. And Exeter magistrates? court heard he had received a police caution before for an attack on a bridal shop. Prosecutor Sue Roberts said police were alerted by an eye witness who heard the sound of smashing glass then saw more than one man in the shop. Mr Giles took the mannequin dressed as a bride and put it in the front seat of his car and then returned twice into the shop to carry out armfuls of wedding dresses which he stacked up on the back seat of the full vehicle. Police were called to the scene but Mr Giles was caught 20 minutes later on the A380 at Newton Abbot by an officer. He saw the mannequin in the passenger seat and the dresses piled up in the back and arrested Mr Giles on suspicion of burglary. In the car he told the officer, ?I am sorry about that?, before making a full confession later in interview. He had been in Plymouth for the night before driving 50 miles to Exeter where he carried out the raid after throwing a rock through the shop?s six foot by two foot window. Mrs Roberts said: ?A witness saw the defendant outside the premises pick up a rock and throw it at the window. He walked into the shop with the intention of stealing and picked up as many dresses as he could carry and stacked them on the car seat. ?He did this on two more occasions, removing dresses and the mannequin. With a car full he drove away from the scene.? Mr Giles told police he did not carry out the raid for financial gain and did not know what he was going to do with the stolen wedding dresses and would have probably thrown them away. The 20 dresses were worth £18,694 and all were recovered but needed cleaning. The court heard Mr Giles has no previous convictions but has two cautions, including one for damaging a bridal shop. Alan Harris, defending, said: ?There is a substantial background to this case. This is not an ordinary style of shop burglary. ?The basis of plea is that he was caught up in and played a relevant and significant part in this burglary but he was not the only offender.? Mr Harris said it was a high value raid committed in the very early hours and there was pre meditation. Magistrates ordered pre-sentence reports and committed Mr Giles on bail to the Crown Court for sentence next month.