Mr. Glenn Bernard Robless

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  Australian guide slammed over croc attack that killed... - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 9/4/2004  

  Tour guide Glenn Robless, who told the tourists it was safe to swim, pleaded guilty last year to a charge of making a dangerous omission that caused von Jordan's death.He was given a three-year suspended prison sentence.
  
  "The death of Isabel von Jordan on that night was not because of any breakdown in our crocodile risk management, but the incomprehensible and inexplicable actions of Mr. Robless," said lawyer Lex Sylvester, representing Parks Australia, the government body that runs Kakadu.
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  "This death was squarely at the feet of Mr. Robless," Grant said.

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  BakuSun - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/18/2005    Last Visited: 1/18/2005  

  Tour guide Glenn Robless, who told the tourists it was safe to swim, pleaded guilty in 2003 to a charge of making a dangerous omission that caused von Jordan's death.He was given a three-year suspended prison sentence.
  
  In a report issued Tuesday, coroner Greg Cavanagh said Robless was responsible for the safety of his visitors, many of whom did not know that saltwater crocodiles were common in the park.

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  IOL : Crocs bite back as tourists flood their swamp - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/2/2003    Last Visited: 7/2/2003  

  Glenn Bernard Robless, a tour guide, pleaded guilty in March to making a dangerous omission that caused the death of 23-year-old Isabel von Jordan and was given a three-year suspended sentence.
  
  The 4,6m crocodile took Von Jordan while she was having a moonlight swim in a billabong.

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  NT hopes to learn from croc attack - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/3/2004    Last Visited: 9/4/2004  

  > Their Gondwana Adventure tour guide, Glenn Robless - a man with 13 years of tourism experience in the NT - had told the young backpackers it was safe to swim in the billabong, which is home to a permanent population of large crocodiles.
  
  "In hindsight it was a horrible error of judgment," Robless told the Darwin Coroners Court via videolink from Perth this week.
  
  Robless said he knew crocodiles lived in the 2.2km billabong, but believed it safe because he had seen a pile of mussel shells on the beach near the water and assumed Aboriginal women had earlier been in the water to collect the molluscs.
  
  "I, at that moment, felt really comfortable and dropped my guard and believed it to be safe because I thought the Aboriginal women had been there," he said.
  
  Robless was last year handed a three-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to making a dangerous omission that caused the death of the German.
  
  This week's coronial inquest into her death is investigating whether the NT tourism industry should be regulated, and whether there are adequate warnings about the danger posed by the estimated 10,000 maneaters in the 20,000 square kilometre, world heritage-listed park.
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  "He (Robless) did seem very, very safety conscious," Mr Waters told the inquest via phone from England.
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  Robless scanned his torch over the water surface and not seeing any "eyeshine" indicating crocodiles, jumped in the deep water, the court heard.
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  The tourists splashed around, dunking each other and having fun, oblivious to the dangers, when Robless left to ask another tour group back at the camp to join them, Mr Waters told the court.

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  NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 1/12/2005  

  Tour guide Glenn Robless, who told the tourists it was safe to swim, pleaded guilty in 2003 to a charge of making a dangerous omission that caused von Jordan,s death.He was given a three-year suspended prison sentence.
  
  Coroner Greg Cavanagh said Robless was responsible for the safety of his visitors, many of whom did not know that saltwater crocodiles were common in the park.

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  No swimming in croc waters: coroner - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/1/2004    Last Visited: 9/1/2004  

  The court was told tour guide Glenn Robless told the tourists it was safe to swim in the 2.2km waterway, which is home to numerous large crocodiles.

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  Northern Territory News: Archive - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/31/2004    Last Visited: 9/6/2004  

  Territory Coroner Greg Cavanagh has been invited to find that tour guide Glenn Bernard Robless was responsible for the death of a German tourist taken by a crocodile at Kakadu National Park.

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  Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/5/2003    Last Visited: 7/5/2003  

  Glenn Bernard Robless, a tour guide, pleaded guilty in March to making a dangerous omission that caused the death of 23-year-old Isabel von Jordan.He received a three-year suspended sentence.Von Jordan was taken by the 15-foot crocodile during a moonlight swim in a billabong.

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  Taipei Times - archives - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 1/12/2005  

  Tour guide Glenn Robless, who told the group it was safe to swim, pleaded guilty in 2003 to a charge of making a dan-gerous omission that caused von Jordan's death.He was given a three-year suspended prison sentence.

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  The Advertiser: Stop croc water swimming: coroner... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/31/2004    Last Visited: 8/31/2004  

  The court was told tour guide Glenn Robless told the tourists it was safe to swim in the 2.2km waterway, which is home to numerous large crocodiles.

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