My Friend and the unreliable Landscape Gardener

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My friend hired a landscape gardener to do some work for her. Unfortunately, she gave him money up front and he did not complete the work. After 6 months of him promissing to do the work, she cut her losses and hired and paid for someone else to complete the work. The first Landscape has been telephoning her and threatening to destroy her garden. She has involved a lawyer and he no longer contacts her but telephones the Lawyer making the same threats about destroying her garden and decking. The police will not get involve as he has not committed any crime as yet. I am concerned for my friend and this is making her ill and affecting her work as she has to leave work and go home in case he turns up to destroy her garden. Does anyone have any advise that I can pass onto her, he has said that if she pays him £500 that he will leave her alone, but she does not want to pay him as she feels he does not deserve to be paid as he did not complete the work and did not turn up when he said he would.