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A millionaire Monmouthshire businessman who paid a dancer up to £10,000 a month to be his personal escort,
Peter Morgan allegedly strangled Georgina Symonds, 25, in January
The married father-of-two, 54, had been in a three-year relationship with Ms Symonds, Newport Crown Court heard. The property developer, of Llanellen, near Abergavenny, denies murder. Jurors were told trained beautician Ms Symonds, from the Allt-yr-yn area of Newport, was being paid between £7,000-a-month and £10,000 a month by Morgan to work as his exclusive personal escort.
She had worked as a burlesque dancer and later as a high end prostitute but Mr Morgan had paid her to stop seeing other men, the prosecution said.
The court heard he lavished her with gifts including a car, paid for full-body liposuction, treated her to spa days, put her up in plush hotels and took her on a helicopter ride from a castle he owned.
Mr Morgan - known to Ms Symonds' friends as "Rich Pete" - became "increasingly controlling" and "obsessive"
The prosecution told how he killed her after hearing her tell another love interest on the phone she would leave Mr Morgan after he signed over his bungalow to her.
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Originally Posted by David Feckem
