Brit, 35, who scaled 20ft wall to escape Portugal prison caught after months on the run
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA Cheshire criminal who fled from a Portuguese prison has been dramatically recaptured after five months on the run. Mark Roscaleer, 35, was detained after police stopped a Porsche on Spain’s Costa Blanca.
He had vanished after scaling a 20ft wall with a ladder at Vale de Judeus prison, in Alcoentre near Lisbon, last September. That came five years after a previous foiled jail break when he smothered his body in oil to squeeze through bars.
He was recaptured yesterday with another of the four men who escaped with him - convicted Argentinian bank robber and suspected child kidnapper and killer Rodolfo Lohrmann - in a black Porsche at a petrol station near Alicante.
Passenger Roscaleer had been serving nine years for kidnap and robbery after robbing a man at gunpoint and subjecting him to 'cruel' torture.
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