Mark Roscaleer is one of five inmates who pulled off the prison break (Picture: SOLARPIX
A British prisoner serving time at a Portuguese jail for kidnap and robbery has managed to escape by ‘climbing up a ladder’.
Mark Roscaleer, 39, is one of the five inmates who escaped from the Vale de Judeus Prison in Alcoentre, Lisbon, just before 10am today.
In 2019, the Cheshire-born crook tried to flee from EP Lisbon while awaiting trial on robbery and kidnap charges by covering himself in oil to squeeze through the bars.
Guards, however, foiled this plan.
Portugal’s prison service said Roscaleer and four other inmates used a ‘ladder, which allowed the inmates to climb the wall’.
All five have been described as ‘extremely dangerous’ and had to be accompanied at all times by guards and security teams when leaving their cells.
Mark Roscaleer once tried to get out of prison by smothering himself in oil and slipping through the jailcell bars
The men used a ladder that two others on the outside placed, according to guards (Picture: Solarpix)
They include: Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira, 61, sentenced to 25 years for drug trafficking, criminal association, theft, robbery and kidnapping; Rodolf José Lohrmann, 59, sentenced to 18 years and 10 months for criminal association, theft, robbery, false declarations and money laundering; Shergili Farjiani, 40, sentenced to seven years for the crimes of theft, violence after the theft and forgery of documents and Fábio Fernandes Santos Loureiro, 33, sentenced to 25 years for the crimes of trafficking in minor quantities, criminal association, extortion, money laundering, insult, aggravated theft, resisting and coercing an official and driving without a legal licence.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the president of Portugal, said an investigation has been launched into the prison break.
Speaking from Belém, he said: ‘The government… will not fail to inform the Portuguese people
Roscaleer has tried to break out of jail several times. He turned himself in to police in 2015, aged 26, after bolting from HMP Kirkham in Lancashire following nine days on the run.
He was serving seven years and four months for threatening to smash a victim’s skill with a hammer during a raid on an Ellesmere Port pub in 2012. Roscaleer and his accomplice stole £6,300.
Roscaleer, from Runcorn, was jailed for nine years in June 2020 after a trial in Algarve. Prosecutors said he and his accomplice robbed a man at gunpoint before subjecting him to ‘cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment’ to cough up more money.
He had been accused of placing a battery cable clamp on the victim’s nipple and genitals at an abandoned house in the Faro District.
The victim then revealed to Roscaleer and his accomplice, Robert George Anthony Wood, 20, where he had hidden thousands of pounds.
Two escapees believed to be Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira and Rodolfo José Lohrmann (Picture: DGRSP/SOLARPIX.COM)
Roscaleer and the four other’s prison break today is believed to have been premeditated.
‘They went out of the cells into the courtyard and then, with a ladder that was hidden outside, they climbed over the six-metre-high wall and escaped,’ a prison …read more
Source:: Metro
