Multi-millionaire sugar daddy jailed for life after murdering £10,000-a-month escort over blackmailing fears

A multi-millionaire sugar daddy has been
jailed for life after strangling his escort
girlfriend to death over fears
she planned on blackmailing him.


Peter Morgan, 54, killed Georgina
Symonds, 25, at her bungalow in
Llanmartin, Newport, in January after
overhearing her on the phone to her lover.
Newport Crown Court
heard that Miss
Symonds had a
series of intimate
pictures of Morgan,
who is worth £20
million, including a
shot of him having a
threesome in his
family home.
She had threatened to show the images,
which were also of as well as images of
her wearing his wife’s dressing gown and
other escorts posing with his agricultural
vehicles, to his wife and daughters.
The father-of-two paid Miss Symonds, a
former burlesque dancer, up to £10,000
per month and allowed her to live rent-free
at the £300,000 property before her death.

It was heard that Morgan had secretly
installed a listening device, disguised as a
white plug adapter, in Georgina’s bungalow
two months before her murder.
He called the device, which was saved in
his phone as Isobel, more than 514 times
to listen in.
On the night of her
death, Morgan heard
Georgina talking to
her lover, Tom
Ballinger.
He told the court: ‘I
can remember her
saying she would “do me over” and I just
assumed it was financially.’
After listening to the call, Morgan drove to
the bungalow on January 12 and strangled
his victim, who had a five-year-old
daughter.
He said: ‘I thought she would be afraid and
she would see sense.’
He told the jury he twice released the
pressure around Miss Symonds neck but
strangled her to death after she told him
‘you’re going to pay for this’.
Morgan of Llanellen, Abergavenny,
admitted killing Miss Symonds but denied
murder on the grounds of diminished
responsibility and loss of control.
However a jury found him guilty of the
killing on Friday.
Detective Superintendent Roger Fortey,
who led the investigation, said: ‘This is a
tragic case that resulted in the death of
Georgina, the loss of a mother, daughter,
sister and friend to many.
‘The actions of Peter Morgan were
calculated and he committed the act
without emotion.
‘Hopefully this conviction will bring some
closure to the family in terms of the
criminal justice process but we are in no
doubt that Georgina’s family and friends
will continue to mourn and grieve for the
rest of their lives.
Morgan was today jailed for life with a
minimum term of 25 years.