El Chapo's ride to freedom 'he paid for with $50million in bribes'

The motorbike (centre) was used by notorious Mexican cartel leader Joaquim 'El Chapo' Guzman (inset), in a daring escape from the maximum-security Altiplano prison on Saturday. The bike was fitted to rails in an underground tunnel, nearly a mile long, that reached from the showers in the prison to a construction site nearby.
El Chapo's henchmen spent almost a year carefully crafting the tunnel that came complete with ventilation and electric lighting. El Chapo began his escape by prising up a grill in the prison showers, before climbing down a 32ft shaft into the tunnel below. The photos show the slim tunnel, complete with oxygen supply piping overhead, electric lighting, and the rails for a fast exit, with the walls of the structure bored with professional equipment by the Sinaloa Cartel's expert mining engineers (diagram, bottom right). El Chapo made his escape by prising open a grill in the prison showers, unnoticed by guards, before climbing down a 32ft shaft into the tunnel. The 5ft 6in billionaire cartel leader would have been able to stand up straight in the tunnel, which would have required the removal of more than 3,250 tonnes of earth, to complete the 0.9 mile journey from the prison bathroom to the construction site where he would have emerged (map, top right).