How hard/ easy is it to get a restraining order in place for harassment? My partner's friend who is quite frankly obsessed with my partner he has been a huge part of our lives for the past year, on the surface lovely man with some alcohol problems, we have helped him a hell of a lot to leave all that behind and start fresh when he's sober he is the nicest person. A few days ago he had a drink and has been nothing but abusive since. He has shown his true self, he moved 5 hours from his family and home time to start fresh in the area we live because of how close him and my partner was. They had business plans together and all sorts. He is currently on a huge attack mission against us especially my partner. A few days ago we blocked him on everything because of the threats and abuse he was throwing at us and constantly calling us on no caller ID. Last night somehow he has gotten my email address and is emailing my pictures of knives!! Making threats to hurt himself, we contacted the police and his family and is family have warned us he has a history of this type of behaviour. Now I'm terrified I have 2 young kids in the house and he's staying in a hotel 10 minutes down the road, he's due to move into a property on Friday a 5 minute walk from us. What can I do here.