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The devastated girlfriend of Germanwings killer co-pilo Andreas Lubitz is pregnant with his child, it emerged today.

Secondary school teacher Kathrin Goldbach, who is in her 20s, left Germany in the aftermath of the crash which killed 150 people thinking her fiance was one of the victims.

According to the German newspaper Bild, she arrived in France to find he had been the perpetrator of mass murder.

It is believed that she told the pupils at the Gesamtschule in Krefeld, near Dusseldorf, where she works some time ago that she was 'going to be a mum'.

She was said to be happy to share the news and looking forward to her new life as a parent – and even planned to marry Lubitz.

Although planning their lives, it is thought the couple had an on/off relationship over the past seven years and that Lubitz had been seeing another woman fairly recently.

Now she has to come to terms with the enormity of what he has done – and the stigma of carrying his child.

The lovestruck pair met as teenagers before he became a pilot while working together at a Burger King in his home town of Montabaur, according to reports in Germany.

They moved together to Dusseldorf and shared a flat after he qualified as a pilot around four years ago.

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But his constant demands and desire to be 'in control' meant she was looking to move out, ending their relationship.