Sydney’s ‘baddest’ crim Reynold Glover involved in countless high-profile crimes can finally be identified after his name was suppressed for years
Sydney’s ‘worst’ felon Reynold Glover, involved in countless high-profile crimes, can finally be identified after his name was suppressed for years
- The identity of a top underworld personality revealed
- His name was suppressed because he had multiple trials
The name of a ruthless serial criminal who rose to the top of Sydney’s underworld despite working as a ‘lone wolf’ has been revealed after a decade of secrecy.
Reynold Glover, 37, has been linked to a long list of crimes ranging from attempted murder to witness intimidation and armed robbery. Although his crimes made major headlines, his identity was suppressed by court orders.
Since 2014, Glover has had multiple overlapping lawsuits requiring his name to be hidden so as not to influence juries in his other cases. The Saturday Telegraph won a legal battle Friday to name him after pleading guilty to his latest case in July.
That latest pending case was a brutal 2013 robbery of a cash-in-transit vehicle using assault rifles, which Glover and his crew carried out in broad daylight before shocked Sydneysiders at Broadway Shopping Centre, one of the city’s busiest shopping centres.
One source with knowledge of Sydney’s organized crime told the paper: “Ask anyone in the Sydney underworld if they’ve heard of Reynold Glover and the answer inevitably comes back: ‘Yes, there’s no stopping that man. He’s the worst’.’
Reynold Glover, 37, had his name suppressed for a decade despite multiple high-profile trials (pictured)
Glover grew up with a single mother in Marrickville in Sydney’s inner west, where he attended a school for children with behavioral problems.
He got into serious trouble with the law at the age of twelve, and in the following years embarked on a highly focused criminal career that a judge would later note stemmed not from alcohol or drug problems, but rather from a drive to become. rich without regard to the law.
At the age of 19, he broke into a bank branch in Bendigo with a sledgehammer and would later be charged with organizing and carrying out a series of high-profile armed robberies in Sydney, in which more than $6 million was stolen.
He was acquitted of these charges, but was later imprisoned for committing perjury during the trial, after being secretly recorded by police telling an associate that he had lied on the stand.
He has passed on his expertise to other criminals, offering his services as an armed robbery coach, and has threatened multiple witnesses in his and his associates’ trials.
Those who have dealt with him claim that he is fearless, cruel when provoked, and “learns no consequence.”
Glover is well known in the Sydney underworld, but mainly operates as a one-man gang
He once caused a court complex in Sydney to be sealed off after his plan to free his associate while on transport from prison was discovered.
Glover also single-handedly waged a war against the dreaded Brothers 4 Life founder Bassam Hamzy after his cousin Bilal stole $5,000 from his mother.
That resulted in him being found guilty of attempted murder after shooting Bilal’s aunt in revenge.
Glover is currently imprisoned for 30 years in Goulburn’s supermax prison, where he set fire to his cell on more than one occasion and, after spotting fellow long-term inmate Hamzy, caused a prison fight.