Woman slain after televised snub

A Spaniard who defied a restraining order and went on a television show to beg his estranged girlfriend to marry him was jailed on suspicion of stabbing her to death after she snubbed him, officials said.

Ricardo Navarro, 30, had been convicted of abusing the woman, a Russian identified only as Svetlana. Still, he and the woman took part in the daytime TV talk show “Diario de Patricia” on Nov. 14, during which he went down on his knees, cried and offered her an engagement ring.

The woman, also 30, said she did not want to reconcile. Four days later, she was found with her throat cut in the eastern city of Alicante.

Navarro denied involvement and had not been charged, but was ordered held pending further investigation.