THE moments leading up to drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s escape from prison have been captured on camera.
The dramatic footage shows the kingpin — now the world’s most wanted with a £2.5million bounty on his head — pacing his tiny cell.
He stops to sit on his bed and apparently changes his shoes then walks to the shower area and disappears from sight.
The cartel boss, 60, escaped from a maximum security jail for the second time by climbing through a mile-long tunnel on Saturday.
Pictures of El Chapo, whose name means “Shorty”, have since appeared on an online blog showing him enjoying a beer and flying a plane.
The images of him enjoying his freedom were reportedly sent by one of his sons to a Mexican website.
Three prison officials have since been fired from the Altiplano jail for having “something or a lot to do with what happened”.
Guzman, who has a personal fortune of £630m, had been behind bars for just 16 months when he vanished at the weekend, despite an electronic tag and CCTV cameras trained on him 24 hours a day.
Guards found a hole in the shower area with a ten-foot ladder leading to a mile-long tunnel that was dug from the outside.
The passage was two feet wide and 5ft 6in tall — the same height as El Chapo — and fitted with a motorbike on rails to whisk him to the other end where he emerged in a half-built house on a building site.
El Chapo first escaped from jail in 2001 and was on the run for 13 years in which time he built his criminal empire to become the most powerful in the world.
US authorities say he is responsible for thousands of murders.
