Prisoner's bid to escape dressed as old woman foiled..(photos)

He was serving a 36-year sentence for drugs trafficking. The mask he attempted to escape with cost about $1000.

National Prison Service boss Joao Carvalho added: “His main mistake could have been when he was getting ready to pass through one of the last security points and he didn’t walk like you’d expect a 70-year-old woman to walk.”

An investigation is now underway to find out how the prisoner acquired the women’s clothes and mask. He was put in solitary confinement as a punishment.