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THE Policia Nacional have arrested a ‘very dangerous’ British prisoner who escaped in a mass jailbreak in Portugal last September.
Mark Cameron Roscaleer (35), along with Rodolfo Lohrmann, a fellow escapee from Alicante, were captured.
Interpol’s Red Notice included both of the fugitives on its list, and they were also listed as international arrest warrants. They were therefore high priority targets across Europe for law enforcement.
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Three other escapees have been apprehended in Italy, Portugal and Morocco last year.
On September 7, a group of men fled the high security Vale de Judeus prison in Portugal.
Criminals on the outside are said to have erected a ladder which allowed them to ‘scale the wall’ and then be driven away in a Mercedes and a Volvo.
Information gathered by the Portuguese police about Roscaleer, Lohrmann and their location in Alicante led to the arrest of both men.
The Brit was sentenced to nine years in prison for an Algarve kidnapping and theft that took place in 2018.
Roscaleer, a young British companion and the victim, a 45-year old man in an abandoned home were able to obtain information from him by placing a battery-cable clamp on their victim’s penis and nipple.
The British pair fled to Spain, but were then extradited.
Roscaler- originally from Runcorn (Cheshire), had plenty of criminal history in the UK.
He used a claw-hammer, along with a knife, to rob a pub in Ellesmere Port, England, in 2012.
Roscaleer threatened to ‘smash’ a victim’s skull before he and Karl Steinman took more than £6,300 from The Gunners Arms pub in 2012.
Roscaleer’s sentence was increased in 2014 by the London Appeals Court from four years to seven years, four months.
Before the pub robbery he was convicted 18 times for 32 offenses including burglary and battery.
