TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFP) — It was the way he awkwardly walked in high heels that gave him away. That, and his suspiciously deep voice.

In the end, the cross-dressing escape attempt from a Honduran prison by inmate Francisco Roman Herrera came to naught, according to penitentiary officials speaking to local media.Herrera, a gaunt, 55-year-old man, had donned a luxuriant blond wig, dark sunglasses, black skirt, a black-and-white blouse and stockings, to try to walk out of the prison in Honduras’ssecond city of San Pedro Sula as a visitor.But, although he flashed a woman’s ID card while leaving, the guards at the gate quickly noticed his unfeminine voice and the way he teetered in high-heeled shoes, a prison spokesman, Bayron Sauceda, said.He was stopped and his wig was taken off, putting an end to his bid for freedom.Instead, Herrera, who is serving a 15-year sentence for murder and weapons possession, was transferred from that prison to a maximum-security facility known as “The Hole”, where he will be kept along with more than 1,000 members of Honduras’s feared gangs.