{"id":4392,"date":"2016-12-21T07:27:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2016-12-21T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:27:49","slug":"millionaire-guilty-murdering-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/12\/21\/millionaire-guilty-murdering-escort\/","title":{"rendered":"Millionaire Guilty Of Murdering Escort"},"content":{"rendered":"

A millionaire has been found guilty of murdering his \u00a310,000-a-month personal escort after hearing she planned to leave him.<\/p>\n

Peter Morgan, 54, of Llanellen, Monmouthshire, strangled Georgina Symonds, 25, in January.<\/p>\n

He admitted killing her but had denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He said he did it to stop her blackmailing him.<\/p>\n

Morgan was convicted at Newport Crown Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Morgan paid Miss Symonds, from the Allt-yr-yn area of Newport, up to \u00a310,000 a month to be his personal escort and described himself as a “sugar daddy”.<\/p>\n

She was reported missing after she failed to pick up her daughter from school.<\/p>\n

Morgan admitted killing Miss Symonds<\/a> after officers traced her mobile phone to his Porsche parked at his farmhouse near Usk, Monmouthshire.<\/p>\n

He claimed he confiscated her phone to stop her buying drugs, but when asked whether he had killed her, he told detectives: “Yes. I don’t know why I done it.”<\/p>\n

He handed over keys to a farm workshop to officers and told them: “You will need those keys – she’s locked in the outhouse.”<\/p>\n

Police found her body wrapped in plastic.<\/p>\n

Morgan, worth an estimated \u00a320m, said he started seeing escorts during a “mid-life crisis”, and had never planned to see anyone more than once until he met Miss Symonds.<\/p>\n

He claimed she threatened to release explicit photos<\/a> of him to his family if he did not transfer money to her and sign over a bungalow he was letting her stay in rent free at Pencoed Castle, Llanmartin.<\/p>\n

He said he loved Miss Symonds and she had been like a “best friend”, though he always knew she would leave him if the money stopped.<\/p>\n

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Using a listening device in her home disguised as a plug adaptor, he heard her tell another love interest on the phone she would leave Morgan after he signed over his bungalow to her<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Records showed Morgan had been listening to her phone conversations from November 2015 right up until the day she was murdered.<\/p>\n

The court was told he considered poisoning her with antifreeze<\/a> as a way to get her to hospital to see a doctor about her drug use.<\/p>\n

He said he was concerned about Miss Symonds’ cocaine habit and suicide threats.<\/p>\n

Despite saying “I done it” to police after he was arrested, he always maintained he was not responsible for his actions due to Asperger’s syndrome.<\/p>\n

But a jury dismissed this claim following a three-week trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n

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