The Scottish Mail on Sunday

Last morning with my love, my Prince... heartbreak­ing tribute to British victim

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THE grief-stricken girlfriend of a British student killed in the Alps plane tragedy has revealed a poignant last photo of the young couple together.

Anneli Tiirik took to Facebook to post the image of her final morning with Paul Bramley, 28. Alongside, she wrote: ‘Last morning with my love, my best friend, my protector, my prince.’

The photo emerged as Mr Bramley’s father made an emotional appeal for the 150 dead not to be forgotten and demanded airlines be more ‘transparen­t’.

Yesterday, a distraught Philip Bramley visited the momument erected close to where the Germanwing­s Flight 9525 crashed. His son was one of three Britons who lost their lives.

Fighting back tears in Digne, close to where his son perished on Tuesday, Mr Bramley said: ‘What is relevant, is that it should never happen again; my son and everyone on that plane should not be forgotten, ever. I don’t want it to be forgotten, ever.’

He added: ‘I believe the airlines should be more transparen­t and our finest pilots looked after properly. We put our lives and our children’s lives in their hands. I want to see this cloud over this town lifted and the natural beauty be restored and not to be remembered by the action of a single person.’

Many people took to Facebook to offer Ms Tiirik condolence­s in response to the photo she posted, with one friend saying ‘he was the best guy you could ever meet’.

Ms Tiirik, who is from Estonia, replied: ‘Thank you! He was. It is a big loss for everyone. How it can [sic] be that the most lively and positive person there ever was can be taken from us in this way... I just don’t understand.’

Mr Bramley, from Hull, was studying hospitalit­y and hotel management in Lucerne, Switzerlan­d, where he was about to start an internship after travelling with Ms Tiirik. He had been to Barcelona after completing his first term of college for a few days’ holiday with friends.

Mr Bramley was flying back to the UK via Dusseldorf to see his family.

 ??  ?? ANGUISH: Anneli Tiirik with boyfriend Paul in a previous photograph
ANGUISH: Anneli Tiirik with boyfriend Paul in a previous photograph

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