After more than a decade of high profile crimes and suppression orders, Australia’s baddest man has been unmasked.
His name is Reynold Glover.
The 37-year-old can be revealed after News Corp won a series of legal battles to overturn four suppression orders that have kept Glover’s identity a secret for almost a decade.
The final non-publication order was overturned in the Sydney District Court on Friday.
It can now be revealed that Glover was behind some of the most notorious crimes committed in NSW.
The non-publication orders previously prevented it being revealed that Glover was behind a 2013 crime wave that saw him go to war with feared Sydney crime boss Bassam Hamzy.
Their battle escalated to the point where Glover shot Hamzy’s aunt in retaliation for the crime boss’s cousin, Bilal Hamze, stealing $5000 from his mother.
Glover was jailed for more than 20 years after being found guilty of attempted murder over the shooting.
It can also be revealed that Glover was behind a notorious armed robbery in 2013 where a cash in transit van was held up by men armed with assault rifles outside Broadway Shopping Centre as shocked morning commuters watched on.
Glover’s identity was suppressed by the District Court after he amassed multiple court cases that were running at the same time.
The suppression orders were lifted after Glover’s lawyer Simon Joyner entered a plea of guilty on behalf of his client to his final case — the 2013 armed robbery — in the Sydney District Court in July.
For the first time, Glover’s lengthy criminal rap sheet can be revealed.
It began when he was charged with murder as a 12-year-old in 1999 over a home invasion where a man was stabbed and beaten to death.
Glover spent 176 days on remand before the murder charge was dropped and he pleaded guilty to robbery in company.
In 2009, as a 22-year-old, he was accused of committing a series of high-adrenaline robberies on armoured cash in transit vans where $6 million was stolen.
Glover was found not guilty of all charges and only about $500,000 was ever recovered.
He was later jailed for committing perjury in the trial after he was secretly recorded by police in 2013 telling an associate that he lied on the witness stand.
Read about it in The Saturday Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph or at www.thebaddest.com.au.