Spain on alert after ‘very harmful’ British legal escapes from high-security jail in Portugal – as police chief warns ‘lives are at stake’

SPANISH police are on excessive alert after a ‘very harmful’ British prisoner escaped from a high-security jail in Portugal. 

Mark Cameron Roscaleer, 39, was one among 5 inmates who made the brazen escape from the Vale de Judeus jail on Saturday morning. 

He was serving a nine-year time period for kidnap and theft on the jail, located round 70km north of Lisbon. 

Spain’s Policia Nacional power shared a photograph of Roscaleer and his fellow inmates’ mugshots on X, writing: “The Portuguese police have requested the collaboration of the Spanish authorities to attain their arrest.”

The escapees are all aged between 33 and 61 and are mentioned to have acquired ‘exterior assist’ to attain their jail break.

Criminals on the surface are mentioned to have erected a ladder which allowed them to ‘scale the wall’ and make a run for it. 

Frederico Morais, president of the Nationwide Union of Jail Guards (SNCGP), warned folks to not method the inmates in the event that they see them. 

On the escape itself, he mentioned: “They managed to leap a web as a result of there are not any guards to observe the perimeter… put the ladder towards the wall and, from there, with a home made rope, they climbed over the wall”.

They then fled in a Mercedes and a Volvo, in line with reviews in Portugal. 

Luis Neves, nationwide director of the Judicial Police, warned that bar prisoner Shergili Farjiani, the group are all ‘very harmful’ and can ‘do something to stay free.’

He added: “After I say every part, I imply every part, together with the truth that human life could also be at stake right here.”

The fugitives are made up of; Fernando Ferreira, 61, from Portugal, serving 25 years for drug trafficking, theft, theft, and kidnapping; Fabio Loureiro, 33, from Portugal, jailed for 25 years for extortion, theft, and cash laundering; Rodolf Lohrmann, 59, from Argentina, sentenced to 18 years and 10 months for theft, theft, and cash laundering; Shergili Farjiani, 42, from Georgia, serving a seven-year stint for violent crimes theft and forgery. 

An absence of safety guards and cameras have been blamed for the profitable escape. 

An inside investigation has been launched into the jail. 

When you see any of the lads in Spain, you might be suggested to not method and name the 091 police quantity.