Clauvino da Silva, found dead in jail cell. Failed prison escape last Saturday.

Daily Mail: Brazilian drug lord who tried to escape prison while disguised as his daughter is found 'HANGED' in his cell days after his jailbreak was foiled.

A Brazilian drug lord who attempted to smuggle himself out of prison while dressed as his own daughter before being caught has been found dead.

Clauvino da Silva, 42, had been serving a 73-year sentence in Bangu prison, Rio de Janeiro, when he was caught trying to break out of jail wearing an elaborate disguise on Saturday.

Guards caught him and returned him to his cell, where he was found dead on Tuesday having apparently hanging himself with a bed sheet. 

The Rio prison authority said it had launched an investigation into the death.

da Silva's failed prison escape, here.

Clauvino da Silva, seasoned criminal, fails prison escape. Wore teenage daughter’s clothes, long wig, and a silicon mask.

Drug trafficker Clauvino da Silva, 42

RT: Convicted drug trafficker ‘dolls up’ to pass for his daughter in daring prison break.

Clauvino da Silva, 42, was stopped by the guards of Gericino Penitentiary Complex in western Rio de Janeiro as he was about to leave the facility through the front door dressed as a woman. The inspectors almost fell for the trick, but grew suspicious of the “girl” who was acting nervously at the last moment.

They were in for a bigger surprise when they discovered that the supposed girl, dressed in a pair of blue jeans, a pink T-shirt, a grey blazer, and white sandals, was not a girl at all, but her gangster father.
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Police are now looking into whether the teenager, who, per Silva’s plan, was to stay in his cell instead of him, was an accomplice in the plot.