23:14 EDT, 18 July 2021 Five witnesses will give evidence in court after police hit a male friend of TV star Larry Emdur's daughter with a restraining order - but the case has been derailed by Sydney's Covid lockdown. Police in the city's east hit businessman Rickie Volpatti with a provisional apprehended domestic violence order (AVO) last July, on behalf of his one time 'beach buddy', graphic designer Tia Emdur. Mr Volpatti had been planning to fight the AVO - which bans him from going within 100m of the 22-year-old's home or workplace - at a long-awaited hearing on Monday morning. But the city's Covid restrictions saw the case pushed back until April 2022 with Magistrate Ross Hudson appearing to question its future.