A thief's clumsiness was his own undoing as he tried making off with a phone vendor’s iPhone 7 but was captured by a mob of capital bystanders on Wednesday.

Leaving his gadget to charge in the front of the shop, the owner heard a plate clatter to the floor, then saw the suspect sprinting away with his device.

His shouts of “thief” were heard by Chamkarmon district villagers and the culprit was cornered before being passed off to police.

Koh Santepheap