Mother-of-one is killed after she refuses TV proposal from abusive ex-boyfriend

Svetlana Orlava had no idea why she had been invited on Patricia's Daily Show, but was appalled when confronted by an ex boyfriend who had beaten her for years.

Ms Orlava even had a court order requiring Ricardo Navarro, 30, to keep at least 500 metres away from her.

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But during the programme he came within inches of her.

"I want you to marry me. You're everything for me. Everything, everything," said Ricardo, getting to his knees and bringing out a ring as Svetlana watched uncomfortably.

Presenter Patricia Gaztanaga had to push the Russian mother-of-one to respond.

"Come on Svetlana, say something, we're all here waiting," said Gaztanaga, before the woman produced the answer that Ricardo was apparently unable to accept: "No."

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Five days later Mr Navarro was arrested after allegedly stabbing Ms Orlava repeatedly in the neck. She died in hospital, leaving behind a two-year-old son.

Women's groups were up in arms over the case: "You can't mislead a woman into meeting her abuser, because of the consequences which we now know of," said Ana Maria Perez del Campo, from the Federation of Separated and Divorced Women.

The Association of Television Viewers in the eastern region of Catalonia demanded that television station Antena 3 drop its popular "Patricia's Diary" show, which attracts more than two million viewers a day.

"People who make television should learn not to manipulate human emotions in order to get audience share," said the association's president Josep Ma Guerra i Mercadal.

With a constant parade of weeping, quarrelling guests, Patricia's Diary specializes in getting ordinary people to reveal their most intimate problems and confront errant loved ones in front of an afternoon television audience.

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A spokesman for Antena 3 said the station had done all it could to determine whether any of its guests were dangerous.

"Antena 3 utterly condemns this killing," he said, without making further comment.

The death of Ms Orlava is not the first incident of violence between people whose emotional conflicts have been broadcast on television.

In one famous case, a U.S. man shot and killed a friend who had revealed he was homosexually attracted to him on The Jenny Jones Show in 1995.