A BRITISH criminal thug, who spent five months on the run after escaping a Portuguese prison using a ladder, has finally been caught.
Mark Roscaleer was seized by cops on Spain’s Costa Blanca while he was brazenly riding around in a Porsche.
TwitterViolent British prisoner Mark Roscaleer has been caught after he escaped a Portuguese prison[/caption]
SolarpixCCTV captured the inmate escaping the jail in broad daylight[/caption]
SolarpixThe British criminal escaped from the Vale de Judeus Prison in Alcoentre, near Lisbon, last year[/caption]
The violent prisoner was caught on CCTV scaling a 20-foot jail wall – at Vale de Judeus Prison in Alcoentre near Lisbon – last September.
Roscaleer was part of a mass prison escape along with four other inmates.
The British thug was caught with one of the other four escapees – convicted Argentinian bank robber and suspected child kidnapper and killer Rodolfo Lohrmann – on Thursday.
Roscaleer reportedly attempted to resist arrest and left several officers injured.
The thug had been jailed in June 2020, at an Algarve court, and was serving nine years behind bars for kidnapping and robbery.
He was found guilty of torturing a victim by putting a battery cable clamp on his intimate areas.
Roscaleer and Lohrmann – who had reportedly been regarded as the brains behind the 7 September, 2024, prison break – were said to have been working together in the same criminal gang after their escape, according to local media.
The prisoners reportedly used a ladder to scale the jail wall and were assisted by accomplices who were waiting outside for them in a small black Mercedes.
They escaped in the morning but cops did not notice their disappearance until lunchtime, it was reported.
The Runcorn, Cheshire-born criminal is now facing extradition to Portugal along with Lohrmann, nicknamed ‘El Ruso’ or ‘The Russian’.
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