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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/shot-workers-child-true-victim.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Danny Fitzsimons was jailed for life for murdering two colleagues in Iraq" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-shot-workers-child-true-victim.jpg" alt="Danny Fitzsimons was jailed for life for murdering two colleagues in Iraq"/></a></p>
<p>The fiancee of a British security worker shot dead in Iraq by a colleague has said the &#8220;true victim&#8221; of the crime was the daughter he never met.</p>
<p>Danny Fitzsimons will serve at least 20 years for killing Scot Paul McGuigan and Australian Darren Hoare in August 2009.</p>
<p>Fitzsimons, 31, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, worked with the two victims for private security group ArmourGroup.</p>
<p>In a statement, Mr McGuigan&#8217;s fiancee Nicci Prestage, 37, said: &#8220;I have found some solace in the fact that Fitzsimons has been convicted of murder and not manslaughter by self defence. There was no evidence to support a fight between Paul, Darren and Fitzsimons and the judge has recognised that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ms Prestage, who lives in Tameside, near Manchester, said she wanted to remind everyone her daughter Elsie-mai, born prematurely just weeks after her father&#8217;s death, is the &#8220;true victim of Fitzsimons&#8217;s actions&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr McGuigan, 37, a former Royal Marine originally from Peebles in the Scottish Borders, was gunned down alongside Mr Hoare in Iraq&#8217;s Green Zone. Mr McGuigan was shot twice in the chest and through the mouth, while Mr Hoare was shot through the temple at close range.</p>
<p>Fitzsimons claimed he was acting in self-defence when he shot his colleagues, asking the judges in Iraq to consider a plea agreement which would convict him on lesser manslaughter charges.</p>
<p>His family said Fitzsimons is threatening to take his own life and is frightened of being sent to Baghdad&#8217;s Rusafa prison because he is a former British Army paratrooper.</p>
<p>His step-mother Liz Fitzsimons said: &#8220;Danny, for the last few weeks, has been constantly saying he cannot end up in Rusafa jail, which is the main jail out there. He said &#8216;I will be a target&#8217; and he said &#8216;I just won&#8217;t last&#8217;. He has also said that if they talk about putting him in Rusafa jail he will take his own life first.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fitzsimons was the first Westerner to stand trial in Iraq since a 2009 US-Iraqi security agreement lifted immunity for foreigners.</p>
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