Prison officials in Honduras have told a convicted murderer who attempted to break out of jail disguised as a woman that he faces severe punishment.<\/p>\n
Francisco Herrera Argueta, 55, clad himself in a long skirt, blonde wig, sunglasses and fake breasts while trying to make the escape.<\/p>\n
He attempted to walk out of the maximum security jail with the families of other inmates paying a prison visit.<\/p>\n
But he was caught when guards noticed his unusual way of walking.<\/p>\n
They later noticed that he had a man’s voice.<\/p>\n
Argueta, a gang leader also known as Don Chico, was jailed in September 2015 for murder and firearms offences.<\/p>\n
He now faces additional punishment for his attempted escape, with officials warning he may be transferred to El Pozo jail, widely regarded as the most dangerous prison in the country.<\/p>\n
In his escape attempt he even went to the trouble of wearing blusher and paint his nails pink.<\/p>\n
Argueta impersonated a female visitor to the prison in San Pedro Sula who left her identity card with guards while visiting inmates on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
He was caught as he tried to pick up the identity card at the jail’s exit – when a guard asked him to remove his sunglasses. He had already passed through other security filters before he was finally stopped.<\/p>\n
“The make-up couldn’t hide the fact that he was a man,” police spokesman Bayron Sauceda was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
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Honduras has in recent years successfully clamped down on violent crime. In 2011, it had a murder rate of 86.5 per 100,000 people, according to the National University’s Violence Observatory.<\/p>\n
The country’s industrial capital, San Pedro Sula, was the worst-hit.<\/p>\n
But by 2015, the national murder rate had decreased to 60 per 100,000 – at the same time, neighbouring El Salvador has been climbing the ladder of violence with a national murder rate in 2015 closer to 100 per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n
El Salvador is currently the most deadly country outside a war zone.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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