A name that has been shadowed in secrecy has finally been revealed after more than a decade of high-profile crimes and suppression orders. He has been dubbed by the media as Australia’s baddest man. His name is Reynold Glover.
His identity can finally be revealed after media and publishing company News Corp won a series of legal battles to overturn Force supression orders that has kept Glover’s identity a secret for almost a decade. The non-publication orders previously prevented it being revealed Glover was behind a 2013 crime wave across New South Wales.
This is the story of Australia’s baddest man, Reynold Glover.
Glover grew up in a poor section of marville, in Sydney’s inner West, in a single-parent household with his mother. Trouble came early, and Glover spent time in Dage Hills Edge wear school for youth with emotional and behavioral problems.
However, it was in 1999 that Glover, aged 12, found himself charged with murder during during a home invasion where 56-year-old Ralph Terrence Mason was stabbed and beaten to death.
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Glover spent 176 days in custody awaiting trial, until the murder charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. Glover pleaded guilty to robbery after the courts heard the teenagers went to Mason’s house to rob him after hearing he was rich. Glover received a 2-year suspension order. This early introduction to crime set the foundations for Glover’s life in the underworld.
In 2005, Glover smashed his way through the front of a bendo bank in radwick using a sledgehammer. Six weeks later, Glover held up the Hunters Hill Hotel at gunpoint. He was jailed for both crimes.
After being released from jail in 2008, Glover linked up with a gang of similar young men from rough sections of Sydney. From that point, police alleged Glover tore a path through Sydney, and the fallout tied up the the city’s court system for more than a decade.
In 2009, Sydney was hit by a wave of armed robberies on cash and transit vans, where millions in cash was stolen. They all followed a similar pattern: balac clava-clad gunman armed with assault rifles and pistols, assisted by a getaway driver in a rotating fleet of stolen sports cars.
Over six cash van were hit by the gang, with an estimated total of $6 million in cash stolen in the early months of 2009. Glover is crew was seemingly living the high life. Glover had moved into a luxury waterfront apartment in Sydney CBD with his girlfriend, who he had recently convinced to return to Australia from the US.
However, little did Glover know, the police investigation into the recent cash and transit van robberies was about to blow wide open.
In 2009, meritan worker Wayne gtis arrived at his job at a South Sydney block of apartments. On the ground in the car park, he spotted four paper dockets. All of them featured the chub logo. There were also two smaller pieces of laminated paper.
The next day, Wayne gets saw an article in the Daily Telegraph about the $2.3 million stolen from the Lane grove chub base. The maintenance worker met with the police and handed them the cards and the docket.
But what was the chub material doing at this apartment complex?
The answer lay in a major Sydney drug dealer who can legally only be known as Mr. X. Mr. X X, who sold cocaine and heroin by the kilogram, leased an apartment inside the complex and was living there.
As well as living in the apartment, Mr. X had also convinced a number of meritan staff into letting him use an empty apartment as a safe house to store drugs, guns, explosives, and bulletproof vests. The apartments were also being used by the robbers after they had committed the holdups to count money that had been stolen and store weapons.
The police were now zeroing in on the meritan complex to uncover it’s link to the robberies. Another connection was that a silver Audi, which was used as a getaway car in one of the robberies, had been called on the meritan CCTV driving into the apartment complex’s car park just after the holdup.
Corrupt meritan staff attempted to delete the CCTV footage. However, after this failed, they paid to have the entire hard drive used to store the footage replaced.
When police started asking questions, the corrupt meritan staff helped Mr. X clean up the apartment where cash canisters and guns had been stored. The guns were dropped at am merville property before the bags with the canisters were dumped in the cooks River at merville golf club. However, shortly after, people on their morning walks around the golf course spotted them and called the police.
With police closing in, Mr. X took a vase of action. With the help of one of the meritan staff, Mr. X grabbed 1.2 kilos of heroin and a revolver from the cavity behind the fridge space. He also grabbed drugs from the dryer in the laundry and took the gear to an apartment on the floor upstairs.
On July 30th, 2009, detectives arrived at the meritan complex with a search warrant for Mr. X’s unit. A mystery person had told them what was inside. It didn’t take them long to enter the apartment and find Mr. X’s stash of drugs and guns.
When Mr. X got the word his stash was found, he went on the run, and the police hunt for him went into full swing. The man hunt was quick and calculated.
On August 11th, 2009, Mr. X was arrested and charged with large commercial drug supply and possessing firearms and explosives in relation to what the police found inside a meritan apartment.
Mr. X was looking at a lot of time and needed a way out. To save his own skin, Mr. X told officers he knew who committed the armed robberies and could help them solve the case. He began giving the police fital information about Reynold Glover and his crew, including where Glover lived.
The police wasted no time, and at 6:00 a.m. on August 21st, 2009, they burst into Glover’s waterfront apartment and found him in the bathroom. After searching the apartment, they uncovered a BMW car key that was linked to one of the robberies, a black balaclava, clothing, and a copy of the Sunday Telegraph that featured an article about one of the robberies.
Reynold Glover and his crew were arrested and charged with armed robbery.
For his cooperation, Mr. X was given a 60% discount on his jail sentence for the heroin, guns, and explosive found. He was sentenced to a non-parole period of 3 years, 3 months, and a total sentence of 5 years, 3 months.
For Glover and his crew, after an extensive 97-day trial, he was found not guilty on October 25th, 2012.
During this time, while on remand, Glover was moved to a supermax prison after stabbing a fellow inmate. Glover had also been using the jail phone, where all phone calls are recorded, to enlist three men to threaten Mr. X and convince him not to give evidence in the armed robbery trial.
In March 2010, on Glover’s instructions, the three men demanded Mr. X meet them at of McDonald’s. At the meeting, Mr. X was given three choices: recant his evidence, leave the country, or both.
Mr. X told them he would flee Australia in 3 months and would be long gone by the time the armed robbery trial started in 2012. However, it was a lie. Instead, Mr. X told his police handler about the demand.
As a result, police listened in on a call Mr. X had with Glover’s cohorts, where the men passed on threats to Mr. X and his family.
On April 7th, 2009, Mr. X asked one of Glover’s minions to email the wording of what he should write to the police to recant his evidence. That night, the email was sent to Mr. X. It read:
“I, Joe Blow, lied about Glover and the other three accused doing six armed robberies, and I also said that I was counting money with Reynold Glover, which was a lie. I lied because I got caught with heroin and guns, so I blamed the above people because I knew they had been in trouble with the police before, and the police will believe me. I have been to the jail before, and I hate it in jail, and that’s why I will say and do anything not to go to jail.”
Glover was also captured making a call on a prison phone, telling one of his underlings to remind Mr. X that, if he fails to comply, “things will start happening.”
On April 13th, 2010, Mr. X told the men he would not be recounting a statement or leaving the country. Glover’s response was to have a message communicated to Mr. X that “the Assyrians have been contacted to harm a member of his family.”
On April 14th, 2010, Reynold and three others were charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
After being found not guilty of the robberies, Glover was released on a $700,000 bail on November 29th, 2012. During during his time of freedom, Glover was a busy man. He decided to make two visits to one of New South Wales’s most notorious inmates at litho jail, Dalal hachar.
During the visits, Glover told hachar he shot a West Sydney gangster’s aunt and committed perjury while giving evidence in the $6 million armed robbery trial. Neither man realized that a police listening device, expertly hidden inside the jail’s visiting area, recorded every word they said.
A hidden camera also filmed the two men during the jail visits on February 24th and March 10th in 2013. This was the beginning of the end of Reynold Glover.
On March 4th, 2013, Glover took on a new apprentice, Omar hachar, a relative of belal howar. They held up a cash-in-transit van outside Broadway shopping center with two other men.
However, Reynolds first publicly recorded stint as an armed robbery teacher failed. The getaway driver in a stolen Audi recognized they had taken too long and the police would soon be arriving. He hit the horn as a signal for the men to flee. They left the scene empty-handed.
During his years operating in the underworld, Glover had unsurprisingly made several enemies, one of whom was Sydney crime boss basam hamy. Basam Ham’s cousin, Bal hamy, had stolen $5,000 from Glover’s mother over a dispute between himself and Glover whilst Glover was in jail. For this, Reynold Glover swore revenge.
Five days after the armed robbery at Broadway shopping center, on March 9th, 2013, armed with a Glock pistol, Glover went to take his revenge.
Glover found Bal Ham’s car outside of property in Orban, a western suburb of Sydney. The property belonged to Maha hamy, Bal Ham’s aunt. After failing to law Bal hamy out of the property, Glover unloaded 31 shots at the front door.
Glover would later tell a friend he didn’t know who was on the other side of the door. He was after Bal and didn’t care if there was an army of gangsters on the other side.
Eight of the bullets hit Maha hamy, fracturing her left tibia and right femur. She also suffered bullet wounds to her pelvic region. Though badly wounded, she survived the attack.
The next day, on March 10th, 2013, Glover visited Bal howar to tell him the news.
Police listened to the recording of Glover’s conversation with Bal hachar in litho jail on February 25th North and on March 10th, 2013. When Glover left the second jail visit with howar, police were ready to strike.
Heavily armed tactical operation police arrested Glover at his mother’s house at 10:05 p.m. on March 10th, 2013. A police search of his mother’s home, where he was living at the time, uncovered the Glock pistol used to shoot Miss hamy.
On October 28th, 2014, a jury at the Sydney District Court found Glover guilty of shooting with intent to murder. A major piece of evidence in the case was the secret recordings made by the police in litho jail in 2013, where globber told inmate Bal hachar he shot Miss hamy as revenge for Bal hamy standing over his mother.
Glo’s run of good luck had run out.
On May 15th, 2015, Judge Penny Hawk sentenced Glover to a maximum sentence of 21 years and 6 months, with a non-parole period of 16 years.
On July 10th, 2015, Glover was further sentenced for 4 years after being found guilty of threatening Mr. X. Glover lost his appeal against the conviction in the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal on March 31st, 2017.
As for Omar howar, he got caught on three separate police listening devices, which recorded him admitting to the robberies outside Broadway Shopping Center in 2013. Omar pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in jail on February 13th, 2018.
The Broadway robbery marked Glover’s final case before the court. Glover’s lawyer entered a guilty plea to the robbery on July 28th, 2023.
Glover is currently serving his time at gurn’s supermax prison. Glover’s decade-long journey through the courts is set to reach a conclusion when his sentencing proceedings begin on November 3rd, 2023. I’ll make sure to keep a close eye on the case.
