A VIOLENT Brit inmate has escaped a Portuguese jail in a mass prison break.
Authorities have confirmed Mark Roscaleer – serving nine years for kidnap and robbery – is on the run along with five other men.
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CCTV footage from the jail caught the prisoners – two Portuguese, two Romanians and a British man – escaping through the wall that protects the prison.
Local reports said they used a ladder to scale the 20ft jail wall and were assisted by accomplices who were waiting outside for them in a small black Mercedes.
A member of the prison guard corps told Expresso: “They went out of the cells into the courtyard and then, with a ladder hidden outside, they climbed over the six-metre-high wall and escaped”.
Portuguese authorities have described all five men as “dangerous” and warned members of the public not to approach them.
One of them is reported to have used to have a firearm…
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