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‘The baby is Paul’s double, she is all I have left of him’

AS Paul McGuigan headed to Iraq, leaving his heavily pregnant fiancee behind, his parting words to his mother were: “Look after Nicci and the baby for me.”

Within weeks Mr McGuigan, of Peebles, was shot dead by a fellow security consultant, leaving his family devastated.

His fiancee Nicci Prestage was so distraught when she learned of his death that she gave birth to their daughter Elsie-Mai, five weeks early.