First look inside El Chapo's Mexican prison cell and the 50cm wide tunnel entrance cunningly concealed in the shower cubicle - the jail security camera's only blind spot.
Yesterday, we brought you the detailed
grand escape of mexican cartel boss, Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman from his prison cell. Today, we bring to you photos taken inside his prison cell which shows exactly how the drug kingpin was able to get out, as tunnel experts say it would have taken at least one year and plenty of noise for him to successfully make it out.
The release of the images - showing the 50cm-by-50cm hole at the base of El Chapo's shower that he used to enter an elaborate series of underground tunnels, coincides with news that the drug lord would have had to pay guards inside Almoloya prison an estimated total of $50million in order to bribe his path to freedom.
Jhon Jairo Velasquez Vasquez, the former chief hitman of Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar, believes that Guzman 'will die free' because he was able to pull off such a daring escape on Saturday night and will continue to do so on the lam.
Reports also emerged overnight that El Chapo left a live sparrow in the waste bin of his cell. The authorities found it curled up asleep in the bottom of his bedside bin when they inspected the cell for clues as to his escape. But other reports said it was found dead and was used to test the air quality in the tunnel before his escape.
It’s thought that his accomplices, meeting him at the tunnel entrance, passed him the bird to place in his bin before he left. This would explain why he walked back and forth so much from the shower before exiting.
Mexican authorities have distributed 100,000 photos of Guzman and have 10,000 agents on high-alert as they desperately try to recapture him "You have to buy off the guards and they know how rich he is. They will have asked for tens of millions of dollars. That escape cost money." Vasquez told The Telegraph.