JAILED ex-Plymouth Argyle player Luke McCormick who killed two boys when his car ploughed into them on the M6 is to become a father.

The former keeper was jailed in October for seven years and four months for causing the deaths of Arron and Ben Peak.

Their mother Amanda has been left “heartbroken” after learning McCormick’s fiancee Naomi Richards, 27, is five months pregnant.

Mrs Peak, who reportedly had a hysterectomy after a cancer scare two years ago, told The Sun newspaper: “I can’t have any more children so this is very hard to take. I just hope he realises how precious life is so he can be a decent father when he gets out.”

Arron, 10, and Ben, eight, were killed when the car they were travelling in was hit by McCormick’s Range Rover on the M6 in Staffordshire in June.

McCormick was asleep at the wheel and twice over the drink-drive limit. He was returning from fellow footballer David Norris’ wedding in Bolton and had less than two hours’ sleep the night before.

Mrs Peak, whose husband Phil was seriously injured in the motorway smash said she had a hunch McCormick’s fiancee was pregnant when she was seen clutching her stomach at his court hearing.

“What I want to say in my head wouldn’t be printable,” she said.

“But I don’t want to be nasty because it’s not the baby’s fault for what his dad has done.

“Life is a gift and I don’t begrudge anyone having children or grandchildren. You wouldn’t wish what happened to us on anybody. But equally I wouldn’t want to take away his chance to have children.”

Miss Richards is thought to be on sick leave from a Plymouth nightspot and living with her parents in North Devon.

Mrs Peak’s spoke about the pregnancy as she called on the government to lower the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers.

Tougher penalties for speeding motorists and drink-drivers are being proposed by ministers, but Mrs Peak and her husband said the measures should have been brought in earlier.

Drivers who break the speed limit by a large margin could be given six penalty points, a government consultation is expected to suggest, meaning they would be banned after two offences.

Other measures will target drink drivers and those who put lives at risk by getting behind the wheel under the influence of other drugs.

Mrs Peak said she feared other families could suffer the same ordeal endured by her own.

“It’s Christmas coming up and you know all those people are going to go going out, get drunk, get in their car the next morning and not think of the consequences they are going to cause,” she said.