A MILLIONAIRE businessman murdered a burlesque dancer after paying her up to £10,000 each month to be his personal escort, a court was told.

Peter Morgan, a 54-year-old property developer, allegedly strangled mum-of-one Georgina Symonds with twine he took from his workshop before driving her body away in his £52,000 Porsche.

8 Georgina Symonds was throttled with twine after being giving her monthly wage, the court was told Credit: Wales News Service

8 Morgan had been in a three-year relationship with Georgina, the court heard Credit: Wales News Service

Morgan, a married father of two from Llanellen, near Abergavenny, South Wales, had been in a three-year relationship with Georgina, 25, the court heard.

Prosecutor William Hughes QC told the court she worked as a burlesque dancer, but later as a high-end prostitute.

Mr Hughes said: "The murder of Georgina Symonds was pre-meditated and well planned by Peter Morgan.

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"After killing Georgina he went to great lengths to move her and conceal her body and cover his own tracks for some time after the killing itself.

"Georgina had been in a relationship for about three years or there about at the time of her death.

"Peter Morgan was a very successful and wealthy businessman with a large property portfolio.

8 The 25-year-old was a trained beautician Credit: Wales News Service

8 The court was told the alleged victim had begun working as a high-end prostitute Credit: Wales News Service

8 Georgina was being paid between £7,000 and £10,000-a-month by Morgan, the court heard Credit: Wales News Service

"He made his money through farming before moving into property development and by his own words was a millionaire many times over."

Trained beautician Georgina was being paid between £7,000 and £10,000-a-month by Morgan to work as his personal escort, Newport Crown Court was told.

The jury of eight men and four women heard Georgina worked as an escort after first becoming a pole dancer.

Mr Hughes said: "She worked as a burlesque dancer and her mum remembers her attending pole dancing lessons.

"Georgina dos not disclose other work that she undertook.

8 The alleged victim worked as a burlesque dancer, but later had as a high-end prostitute Credit: Wales News Service

"It's in her career as an escort that she met Peter Morgan as a client.

"There was no exclusivity at this stage she saw other clients and he would use other escorts.

"But the relationship developed from being a professional one to something a bit more than that.

"He would lavish her with gifts and spend a lot of money on her.

"There came a point when he did not want her see other clients and began paying her between £7,000 and £10,000 a month and put her up to live in a property he owned."

8 Morgan denies murdering the 25-year-old Credit: Wales News Service

8 Georgina had been in a relationship with the accused for three years, the court was told Credit: Wales News Service

Morgan denied murder. The trial at Newport Crown Court is expected to last three weeks.

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