Reynold Glover’s death threats from behind bars

Reynold Glover, a prolific letter writer in jail, has penpals including some of Australia’s toughest gangsters — and even issues threats to witnesses from behind bars. SEE HIS LETTERS

Reynold Glover is a prolific letter writer when he’s behind bars.

While he was in Supermax in 2015 he wrote two on behalf of a feared Sydney gangster and landed himself in jail for another two-and-a-half years.

In one of the letters, Glover wrote a warning to the brother of a man set to give evidence against the gangster who was accused of murdering a witness.

The gangster cannot be legally named because of a looming trial over a violent but unrelated gangland dispute.

In the letter, Glover warned the recipient to tell the witness not to turn up to court to give evidence against the gangster.

Glover’s inter-jail mail from Farhad Quami.

“Your bro has to be very careful because this bloke has heaps ($) and (he’s) still got boys outside,” Glover wrote. “But if you give him your word he said he will let it go.”

At the time, the gangster had been charged with murdering a witness who was to give evidence against them in a separate drug case.

Ultimately, the gangster was found not guilty of the murder.

And before the gangster’s trial for murdering the witness began, Glover wrote the letter where he threatened a witness in that case.

Glover wrote two letters to the witness’s brother. The first on April 20, 2015, and another on January 25, 2016.

The first letter saw Glover taking a polite approach in asking the man to tell his brother not to turn up to court to give evidence.

A letter written by Farhad Qaumi to Reynold Glover.

“Brother, one of the boys with me at the Supermax (the gangster) (he’s) charged with murder of a witness in his case … He said he would rather sort it out with your brother by giving him money or something like that than trying to do something to him.”

The second came after the witness ignored Glover’s first letter and gave evidence in the case.

Glover warned the man that the gangster had people outside of jail who would harm him.

A letter from Reynold Glover and an unidentified person.

“Brother, my mate here asked me to ask you to talk to your brother again because he ended up going to the lad’s committal,” Glover wrote. “ … Tell him please (to) not show up … Tell him to go hide somewhere for two months.”

Glover was charged with perverting the course of justice, threatening a person with intent to influence them and influencing a witness.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a maximum two years and four months in jail at Goulburn District Court on April 4, 2019.

The gangster was also charged but was later acquitted.

A letter written by Farhad Qaumi to Reynold Glover.

REYNOLD’S PEN PALS

Glover also passes the time in jail by writing letters to a long list of inmates using the prison’s internal mail system.

His pe-pals have included Brothers for Life gangster Farhad Qaumi, who is serving 60 years jail for murder and other offences.

There’s Comanchero supremo Mark Buddle, now deceased Western Sydney hit man Hamad Assaad, and a long list of other criminals.

Brothers For Life’s Farhad Qaumi.

Ex-Comanchero Boss Mark Buddle.

The contents of the letters are mostly sanitised given the level of scrutiny applied to them by prison authorities.

There’s updates on jail workout routines, court cases and complaints about cops or the “dog” rollover witnesses who put them in jail.

On February 26, 2016, Qaumi updated Glover on a brawl that broke out in the dock between a number of his co-accused during his trial.

“It wasn’t much of a fight,” Qaumi wrote. “He tried a dog shot from behind when I was sitting down (LOL).

“There’s a lot I want to tell you about what these little dogs are trying to do at court but I can’t tell you now,” he wrote. “I will tell you the whole story when I see you.”

While letter writing is one of the few outlets for inmates to maintain their sanity, it is also an opportunity for some of the hardest criminals to network and climb the ladder of influence in the underworld.