An unemployed 20-year-old was handed over to police on Monday morning, after dressing as a high school student and entering a school in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district to steal a mobile phone.

Police said the youth entered a class and pretended to borrow a mobile phone from a student, before attempting to escape.

But the phone owner and his classmates gave chase and captured him.

The suspect told cops he acted in desperation as he was jobless and broke.

Nokorwat