Glenn Green has more than 200 previous convictions, including for breaching court orders, harassment and perverting the course of justice. Photo / NZ Herald
Glenn Green has more than 200 previous convictions, including for breaching court orders, harassment and perverting the course of justice. Photo / NZ Herald
New Zealand's most prolific stalker is fighting to have his electronic bracelet removed, which police say helps keep him away from his victims.
Glenn Green, 47, appeared in the High Court at Auckland today to appeal certain conditions imposed as part of a sentence for his latest offending in Aprilthis year.
Representing himself before Justice Timothy Brewer, Green said he accepted the police summary of facts as part of a plea deal, but that the summary wasn't "entirely factual".
The summary described Green stalking a woman he hadn't had contact with in 20 years after seeing her leave work one day.
However, Green agreed with Justice Brewer that he has an "appalling record", which includes more than 200 previous convictions, including for breaching court orders, harassment and perverting the course of justice.
Green also has eight current protection orders against him, and was described by Justice Brewer as a "serial stalker".
Police have previously called him New Zealand's most dangerous stalker.
Green said the special conditions, which included the electronic monitoring, a curfew, a ban from internet cafes, and a requirement to notify authorities if he enters into a relationship, should have been more in proportion with his offending.
He said he was no longer concerned with the curfew or internet cafe ban, but successfully argued for Justice Brewer to amend the relationship condition to specifically only include intimate relationships.
Police sought electronic monitoring to prevent Green from entering the Auckland suburb of New Lynn, the court heard.
"I don't need a 24-7 bracelet on just to see if I enter the boundary of New Lynn," Green argued.
However, Justice Brewer replied: "Just looking at your record I can see entirely why the Crown thinks that it is necessary."
The judge reserved his decision on the bracelet.
Glenn Green during an earlier appearance in the North Shore District Court. Photo / NZ Herald
to two years' imprisonment after being found guilty of harassing a woman sporadically for 20 years after just being released from prison.
Judge Gus Andree Wiltens also ordered his address book and phone be destroyed.
The sentence the judge imposed was the maximum term on such a charge under the Harassment Act.
Earlier this year Green was also found not guilty of harassing one of his former victims amid a flurry of 252 Facebook friend requests sent to sports stars and models.
He was charged with sending the friend request to a woman he'd previously been convicted of harassing which was also a breach of his prison release conditions.
After a one-day trial in April, Judge John Walker found there was enough reasonable doubt about who sent the request to acquit Green and dismissed the charge.
Green has also been known to use the aliases Holden, Carlione, Colcord, Goldberg and Versace and Dallas Deangeles.
He is understood to suffer from erotomania - a type of delusion in which the affected person believes that another person, usually a stranger, high-status or famous person, is in love with them.
