A “very dangerous” British prisoner, Mark Cameron Roscaleer, has made a dramatic escape from a high-security prison in Portugal, scaling walls with a ladder and homemade rope in a brazen breakout early Sunday morning. Roscaleer, serving a nine-year sentence for kidnapping and robbery, fled the Vale de Judeus prison, located 40 miles north of Lisbon, alongside four other inmates.
Four of the escapees are described as “dangerous” and “violent” individuals who, according to LuÃs Neves, director of the Portuguese judicial police, “will do anything to remain free,” including endangering human lives. The men had been imprisoned for serious crimes such as violent robbery, drug trafficking, and organized crime. Authorities have urged the public not to approach them.
The fugitive group, which includes a 39-year-old British national, an Argentinian, and a Georgian, reportedly had “external help” to execute their escape. The Portuguese prison service (DGRSP) confirmed that accomplices outside the prison provided a ladder, allowing the inmates to scale the wall.
Frederico Morais, president of Portugal’s national prison guards’ union, explained, “They jumped a fence because there are no guards to watch the perimeter, put the ladder against the wall, and climbed over with a handmade rope.”
LuÃs Neves called the escape a “complex operation by organized criminals with financial capacity, planned down to the smallest detail.” Manuel Vieira, deputy secretary general of Portugal’s internal security system, revealed that Interpol, Europol, and the authorities of the Schengen area have been alerted, but no emergency border closures are planned.
Among the escapees is Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira, 61, a Portuguese man serving a 25-year sentence for robbery and kidnapping; Fábio Fernandes Santos Loureiro, a 33-year-old Portuguese; Rodolf José Lohrmann, a 59-year-old Argentinian; and Shergili Farjiani, a 40-year-old Georgian considered the least dangerous of the group.
Authorities continue their nationwide and international manhunt for these dangerous fugitives, who remain at large.
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