The Baddest: Reynold Glover becomes stick-up instructor for Omar Haouchar

It was a classic brazen Reynold Glover stick-up — men in balaclavas, threats to kill and a shot fired in busy, daylight robbery aimed to netting $6 million. Watch the never-before-seen footage of the crime.

Felipe Anderson** was centimetres away from having his head blown off.

The Armaguard officer was being held at gunpoint by a balaclava clad member of Reynold Glover’s crew outside one of Sydney’s busiest shopping centres at 8.10am on March 4, 2013.

The man wielding an assault rifle was demanding that Anderson open the armoured cash truck — which Glover estimated could have $6 million inside — outside Broadway Shopping Centre so they could access the millions in cash inside.

With Anderson taking too long, the gunman attempted to motivate him by firing a pistol right next to his ear.

“Open the truck or I’ll put one in your knee,” the robber said.

The gunman fires his pistol right next to the guard’s head, left. The guard immediately clutches at his near-deafened ear, right. Pictures: Supplied.

Petrified and disorientated, Anderson recoiled and put a hand over his now deafened ear.

The two gunmen stalking the truck threatened to kill Anderson while he begged them to understand that there was simply no way for him to open the truck.

Inside the truck, Anderson’s partner had gone into lockdown mode and was laying prone inside the truck.

Anderson pleaded with him.

Reynold Glover was late to a court appearance because of the stick-up.

“Open up or I’ll die…,” he said to his partner, according to court documents.

“... Mate, just open it, open it, it’s not your money’… Mate they’re gonna f**king kill me.”

The robber also thrust the rifle into the guard’s neck, but the truck remained locked.

Terrified cafe goers, students and people making their way to work looked on in horror at the scene that was unfolding.

Some even filmed it on their phones.

What they were witnessing was Glover playing the role of an armed robbery coach.

Then 26-years-old, Glover had agreed to a request from crime figure Bilal Haouchar, to teach his younger brother, Omar, the best techniques for holding up a cash in transit truck.

Anderson’s partner was following lockdown procedures inside the truck as his partner begged for the doors to be opened.

Glover was calling the shots and had predicted the men would collect up to “$6 million”.

It went the other way and the men fled with nothing when they couldn’t get in the truck.

Glover called the shots during the robbery with his new protege and two other unidentified men.

Glover was due to face the Downing Centre Court on other charges but was late because he was carrying out the robbery.

The stick-up followed Glover’s winning formula.

They had a getaway car in the form of a limited edition Audi that had been stolen from a sleeping couple at McMahons Point just hours earlier.

The student... Omar Haouchar.

The teacher... Reynold Glover.

Two of the robbers were armed with assault rifles and were disguised in balaclavas, ski jackets and bullet proof vests, which had been stolen from the police.

Reynold’s first publicly recorded stint as an armed robbery teacher failed.

The getaway driver recognised they had taken too long and that the police would soon arrive.

He hit the horn as the signal for the men to flee.

They left the scene empty-handed.

Police noted in their records that it was the first robbery on a cash-in-transit van that had occurred since Glover was arrested over the 2009 robberies.

** Name of the guard has been changed to prevent further trauma

WAKE UP, WE CAN’T FIND THE KEYS

The Audi had been stolen from a home on Blues Point Rd, McMahons Point just hours earlier.

The owners of the car were asleep in bed and woke up to the terrifying sight of three masked men who came into their bedroom. One was armed with a screwdriver.

Haouchar was later recorded telling undercover police that he and the other men only woke the couple because they couldn’t find the car keys and needed the owner to show them where they were.

“(We) like broke into his house and got the keys off them…yeah broke in while they were asleep…Couldn’t find the keys so he woke them up,” Omar told the undercover.

They took the keys to the man’s limited edition Audi RS6 and fled with the sports car.

A set of number plates was stolen from a Kia Sorento in Croydon two hours before the robbery.

OMAR’S BIG MOUTH SENDS HIM TO PRISON

Omar Haouchar got caught on three separate police listening devices, which recorded him admitting to the robbery.

One was at Merrylands Police Station on July 16, 2013, where Omar was reporting for bail on another matter.

Police told him the computer system was down and that he would have to wait in a cell with two other men before they could process him.

The two other men were undercover cops.

The two undercovers listened and recorded as Omar told them about the Broadway robbery and how “One of them lock(ed) himself in the van”.

Omar pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a maximum 10 years in jail on February 13, 2018.

Police at the scene of the attempted robbery at Broadway in 2013. Picture: AAP Image

GLOVER PLEADS GUILTY

The Broadway robbery marked Glover’s final case before the courts.

His lawyer Simon Joyner entered a guilty plea to the robbery in the Downing Centre District Court on July 28.

And Glover’s decade-long journey through the courts is set to reach a conclusion when his sentencing proceedings begin on November 3.