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Paul, 37, who lived in Tameside, was working in Baghdad as a security guard for the private security contractor ArmorGroup.
It is alleged that his colleague Daniel Fitzsimons shot him and Australian Darren Hoare after a booze-fuelled row at a compound in Iraq. Mr Hoare also died.
Fitzsimons, 29, a former paratrooper from Middleton, is then accused of shooting an Iraqi who tried to take the gun away. His trial is due to begin in Iraq on Sunday and if he is convicted he could be hanged.
But it has emerged that his lawyers are now making last-minute attempts to get the hearing moved to Britain.
His family have said that he was suffering from post- traumatic stress syndrome after serving in Kosovo and Iraq. And solicitor John Tipple said: "If he was in this country he would be in front of psychiatrists by now. We're determined to bring Danny home."
But Nicci said that the shootings had taken place in Iraq and added: "I feel that Iraq should be able to serve justice for him."
Nicci, who had to identifyPaul's body while she was in the late stages of pregnancy, said she realised that Fitzsimons could face the death penalty.
But she said: "I understand that but I also understand that I'm raising a child now with no dad as well. My feelings are just concentrated on the baby that's left behind and never going to get to see her dad."
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