Police had issued a restraining order against the man and given the woman a panic button, but the measures failed to prevent him stabbing his 44-year-old ex-partner in the neck repeatedly with a knife yesterday.
"The man burst in with a weapon. His intention to harm her was clear," prosecutor Bernardo Alberione said after the brutal attack in San Francisco, Cordoba province.
Neither the suspect nor his former partner -- who is also mother to his two grown children -- were named.
