I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right forum, but I wasn't sure where I should post it.
I apologise in advance, because I know this is going to be a lengthy post, and I thank anyone who takes the time to read it, but I'm really scared for my safety, and I don't know how to handle the situation I'm finding myself in. I could really use some advice and support.
I'm 25, and I used to work as a manager in a department store. One of my employees/friend is married to a guy "X", and he is 42. He would come into the store to see his wife during her break, and he began to make sexually explicit comments to me. First he would tell me that I was beautiful, then he would say things like how much he would like to get me alone, and what he would like to do to me. I told him what he was saying was inappropriate, but that just seemed to encourage him.
Once I stopped working there, I saw him around quite a lot in a social setting, as I remained friends with his wife, but always made sure I was never alone with him.
About 4 or 5 months ago, I was woken up at 3am by someone knocking at my door. It was X. His eyes were all red, so I assumed he'd had a fight with his wife (as their marriage has been rocky), had a cry, and as I live really close, he came to me. Well i was dead wrong, he was drunk. I don't need to go into detail, but he hurt me in more ways than one that night.
He comes over 2 or 3 nights a week now, but I don't let him in. He knocks on my doors and windows for hours before eventually giving up and leaving. He's come over a few times during the day, and Ive opened the door, not thinking it could be him, and he pushes his way in.
He gets very violent, but only ever hits me on the back of the head, or in the stomach so I never have bruises to prove anything.
This morning when I woke up, I found a red rose in my screen door. I thought nothing of it, and went out and did the things I had to do. This afternoon, X turned up. He had more roses. I didn't let him in. He said that pretty girls should never get only one rose, but a dozen,. Then he pulled some scissors out of his pocket and cut the heads of all the roses, commented how they were the same colour as blood, wedged the stems in the door, then left.
I called the police and explained the situation, and all they could offer was an AVO. The problem with that is I know that won't stop him. He used to verbally harrass a co worker of mine. She took out an AVO, and all that did was %#@&#! him off. He vandalised her house and car. He didn't seem to care her husband was built like a bull. Everytime she reported the breach to the police, they said they couldn't prove it was him. I live alone, and don't want to risk making him angry.
I feel like the only option I have is to move, but I don't want to do that because I live in a good area, and I'm close to everything.
I haven't told anyone what's been happening until tonight, because I don't have any close friends or family. I haven't even told my T.
Thankx for taking the time to read all this, and any advice is more than welcome, because I am really, really scared.