The man dubbed New Zealand's "most dangerous stalker" has pleaded guilty to two charges of criminal harassment - the latest in more than 25 years of offending with victims, including a female journalist and people he has never even met.
Glenn Green - who has also used the names GlennMike Carlionne, Glen Dallas Goldberg, Glenn Richard Charles Holden, Glenn Colcord and others - admitted the charge in North Shore District Court yesterday. The charges related to three separate complainants.
Green was released from prison in mid-November after serving a sentence for similar offending. He had been out of prison less than two weeks when he resumed harassing young women he had never met while on bail.
Court documents show that on November 23, Green contacted a 19-year-old woman on her home phone, introducing himself with an alias.
He said he knew her ex-boyfriend, who had committed suicide about three years earlier, and then bombarded her with photographs and text messages.
On December 1 he contacted a 20-year-old woman from Christchurch whom he had also never met. Over the next five days he sent her some 250 text messages, some of which were abusive.
A third criminal harassment charge was dropped by police. Green was remanded in custody until sentencing in June.
Former TVNZ reporter Charlotte Bellis was said to be among the Christchurch women who received messages from a Glenn Castellano proposing a relationship or meeting.
A leading expert said Green's offending did not fit the four typical profiles of a "stalker".
Paul Mullen, a professor in forensic psychiatry at Melbourne's Monash University, said most cases involved personal relationships - spurned lovers, incompetent suitors, the vengeful and those who pursue their perceived "true love" were the four typical forms of harassment.
The first three types of stalkers were almost always men and the fourth usually women, Professor Mullen said.
However, Green did not appear to fall into one category and instead "crossed boundaries" and was possibly mentally ill. "He sits on the edge. This man's not typical."
Green's first known victim was a 16-year-old he bumped into on a bus. He discovered her name from a bus pass and managed to track down her address to pursue her.
