A British criminal is part of a group that has pulled off an audacious prison break in Portugal, escaping by ladder over the wall and making off before guards realised they had gone.
A search is under way for Mark Roscaleer and four other prisoners after they broke out of the Vale de Judeus prison about 43 miles north of the capital Lisbon on Saturday.
Roscaleer, 39, escaped with an Argentinian, a Georgian and two Portuguese convicts. According to the Portuguese prison service, the men, aged between 33 and 61 years old, escaped at 10am “with external help through the launch of a ladder, which allowed the inmates to scale the wall and access the outside”.
Portugal has asked for international assistance in the search for Mark Roscaleer and his accomplices
Police had been immediately deployed to recapture the escapers,