September 7th 2024.
Mark Roscaleer is known as one of the five inmates who successfully pulled off a daring prison break. The other four inmates were also involved and each had their own reasons for attempting to escape. Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira, a 61-year-old man, had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for various crimes including drug trafficking, criminal association, theft, robbery, and kidnapping. Rodolf José Lohrmann, aged 59, was serving an 18-year and 10-month sentence for criminal association, theft, robbery, false declarations, and money laundering. Shergili Farjiani, a 40-year-old man, was convicted of theft, violence, and forgery of documents and was serving a seven-year sentence. Lastly, Fábio Fernandes Santos Loureiro, a 33-year-old man, had been handed a 25-year sentence for trafficking, criminal association, extortion, money laundering, insult, aggravated theft, resisting and coercing an official, and driving without a legal license.
The president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, announced that an investigation has been launched into the prison break. He spoke from Belém, stating that the government would keep the people of Portugal informed about the situation. This wasn't the first time that Roscaleer had tried to escape from prison. In 2015, at the age of 26, he had managed to escape from HMP Kirkham in Lancashire and was on the run for nine days before turning himself in to the police. He was serving a sentence of seven years and four months for threatening a victim with a hammer during a robbery at a pub in Ellesmere Port in 2012. Along with his accomplice, they had stolen £6,300.
In June 2020, Roscaleer was sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of robbing a man at gunpoint and subjecting him to cruel and inhuman treatment to extort more money. He was accused of using a battery cable clamp on the victim's nipple and genitals at an abandoned house in the Faro District. The victim eventually revealed the location of his hidden money to Roscaleer and his accomplice, Robert George Anthony Wood, who was 20 years old at the time.
It is believed that two of the escapees, Fernando Ribeiro Ferreira and Rodolfo José Lohrmann, were the ones who planned the prison break. A prison guard revealed that they used a ladder hidden outside to climb over the six-meter-high wall. The ladder was camouflaged in the wall and couldn't be seen in the surveillance footage. It was also reported that one of the surveillance cameras in the area was turned off at the time of the escape. Three individuals were waiting outside the prison with a net for the men to jump into, and they all escaped in a small black Mercedes.
Frederico Morais, the president of the National Union of Prison Guards Corps, shared that the lack of funding from the state has resulted in a shortage of guards at the prison. He mentioned that in the past, there were surveillance towers with guards at all times, but they have since been dismantled and replaced with video cameras. However, the cameras cannot keep track of everyone at all times. The prison, Vale de Judeus, is a high-security facility with a capacity of 560 inmates, but there are only 120 guards working there. This means that on any given day, there are only about 30 guards on duty, and they are also responsible for other tasks such as serving lunch to the prisoners.
Overall, the escape of Mark Roscaleer and his accomplices has raised concerns about the security and funding of the prison system in Portugal. The investigation into the prison break is ongoing, and the government promises to keep the public informed about any developments.
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