Reynold Glover’s extreme threats to star witness from behind bars

Reynold Glover was acquitted of all charges relating to his $6 million armed robbery trial — so in hindsight threatening to kill star witness Mr X was a huge mistake. READ MORE.

Gentle persuasion is not a skill that Reynold Glover possesses in his emotional toolbox.

So when Glover learnt Mr X had rolled over to become the star witness against him in his the $6 million armed robbery trial, he put in play a plan from behind bars to silence the drug dealer.

It was a massive overreach given Glover was eventually found not guilty of the armed robberies thanks to Mr X’s unreliable evidence.

Glover was charged for threatening Mr X and was eventually jailed for threatening the drug dealer.

At one point, Glover told an associate, who can’t legally be named: “Someone needs to go kill him … Why doesn’t someone go kill him?”

Reynold Glover was accused and acquitted of armed robberies netting $6 million.

A holdup at Cranbrook school in Sydney which Glover’s gang was accused of.

Glover made the statement in March 2010 when he was on remand waiting to stand trial for the armed robberies.

His poor behaviour, like stabbing a fellow inmate, had resulted in him being shipped to Australia’s most secure prison, Goulburn’s Supermax.

Using the prison’s phones — the calls on which are recorded by jail authorities — Glover enlisted three men, who can’t legally be named, to threaten Mr X and convince him not to give evidence in the armed robbery trial.

In March 2010, on Glover’s instructions, the men demanded Mr X meet them at Heathcote 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 three months and would be long gone by the time the armed robbery trial started in 2012.

The emailed template Mr X was ordered to use when being threatened by Reynold Glover to withdraw his evidence that he was to give during the $6m armed robbery trial.

It was a lie. Instead Mr X told his police handler about the demands.

On March 28, Glover’s cohorts gave Mr X a phone with one phone number saved under AAA so he could communicate with them.

Mr X gave the phone to police who arranged for it to be tapped.

The investigators then listened in to the calls where the men passed on threats to Mr X and his family.

On April 7, 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.

A holdup at Chubb base in Lane Cove which Glover’s gang was accused of.

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 are (sic) lie …”

“I lied because I got caught with heroin and guns so I blamed the above people because I knew they have been in trouble with the police before and the police will believe me and I have been the jail before and I hate it in jail and that’s why I will say and do anything to not go to jail …”

The email also advised Mr X to say he gave Reynold a BMW key, which was found in his Circular Quay apartment, and that it was for the car used to hold up a cash in transit van inside the grounds of Cranbrook school in May 2009.

It also addressed the $460,000 Mr X helped police find in the boot of Corey George Farrell’s girlfriend’s BMW.

“And I gave Corey George Farrell about $450-$500k cash of my money to hold which I made from drug dealing …”

Glover was also captured making a call on a prison phone telling one of his underlings to remind Mr X that if he failed to comply that “things will start happening.”

On April 13, 2010, Mr X told the men he would not be recanting his statement or leaving the country.

Glover’s response was to have a message communicated to Mr X that “the Assyrians” had been contacted to harm a member of his family.

“You don’t know what you’re getting yourself involved in,” Reynold instructed one of his messengers to tell Mr X.

On April 14, 2010, Reynold and three others were charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Glover was found not guilty of committing the armed robberies on October 25, 2012.
But he should have kept his mouth shut when it came to trying to force Mr X not to give evidence.
On July 10, 2015, he was jailed for a maximum four years after being found guilty of threatening Mr X.

Two of Glover’s minions were found guilty. One was sentenced to three years’ jail. The other was given an 18 month suspended sentence in 2014.

The prosecution case against a third man failed and he was not convicted.

All three can’t legally be named.

But he enjoyed a short stint of freedom before that occurred.

After being found not guilty of the robberies, he was released on $700,000 bail on November 29, 2012.

Three months later he would make a mistake while visiting a friend in jail that put him behind bars for more than two decades.