If I see something lying on the floor I ask people around it first, you don't just go a pick it up, it is not yours.Too many questions here, the idiot definitely over reacted, not sure what the phone would be doing by the pool if the family is sitting at the table, seems BS from both sides.
With all the constant crime in our faces all the time, literally hundreds of videos on facebook/youtube of people in restaurants stealing from hand bags, cant blame a person for jumping straight to guilty.
People praying (eyes most likely closed) and not aware, aunty walks past and see's phone sticking out handbag (sorry lying on the ground) and and and...