'Doting' father killed himself after his escort girlfriend ran off with a millionaire sugar daddy who later murdered her

Pete Deem's mom, Lynne, (pictured) stated her son grew to become depressed after Peter Morgan used his cash to impress Georgina Symonds

A 'doting' father dedicated suicide after his escort girlfriend was seduced by a millionaire sugar daddy who later murdered her.

Pete Deem's mom, Lynne, stated her son grew to become depressed after Peter Morgan used his cash to impress Georgina Symonds.

Morgan was jailed final week for strangling the 25-year-old at her bungalow in Llanmartin, south Wales, and dumped her physique in an outbuilding close to his residence.

However Lynne Deem instructed The Solar how Pete, 31, had killed himself weeks earlier than Miss Symond's homicide

The 58-year-old described how her son tried to assist Miss Symond's, who was the mom of his daughter, as she was drawn deeper into the intercourse business.

The couple separated after Morgan gave lavish presents to Georgina, together with as much as £10,000 monthly to be his 'unique' escort.  

Lynne instructed The Solar: 'If Peter Morgan had not been on the scene my son would nonetheless be alive as we speak.

'All the eye within the case targeted on Georgina's homicide however my son was additionally a sufferer of Morgan.

'Morgan is accountable for two deaths. My son is simply as a lot a sufferer as Georgina.'

Mrs Deem thinks Pete was unable to deal with the connection between Morgan and Miss Symonds.

The 58-year-old described how Pete tried to assist Georgina, (each pictured) who was the mom of his daughter, as she was drawn deeper into the intercourse business

However the couple nonetheless went on a vacation collectively to South African months earlier than their deaths.  

She added: 'He needed to have her regardless of all of the heartbreak. He couldn't bear being on his personal.'

The association between Morgan and Miss Symonds fell aside as Morgan grew to become 'more and more controlling and obsessive'. 

Physique digicam footage launched by police exhibits Morgan being questioned by officers who have been investigating what was then being handled as Miss Symonds's disappearance on January 12.

Leaning on a worktop and stalling his speech, he stated: 'I do know, nicely I believed she'd, I believed she'd, I did not know, I do not know, I believed she'd have simply gone in and picked up [her daughter].'

The police officer asks: 'The place do we expect she was going at 12 O'clock?'

Morgan replies: 'She did not say. She did not say. She simply, simply needed me passed by 12, um I do not know whether or not she was off out or whether or not somebody was coming right here or what.'

Morgan was ordered to serve not less than 25 years behind bars for his crime.

Morgan was jailed final week for strangling the 25-year-old at her bungalow in Llanmartin, south Wales and dumped her physique in an outbuilding close to his residence

He was impassive within the dock because the choose, Mr Justice Neil Garnham QC, instructed him: 'You have been 54 and he or she was 25. The preparations between you have been primarily industrial.

'This killing was premeditated and thoroughly deliberate. In my judgment you have to have triggered Georgina Symonds vital bodily and psychological struggling as you strangled her, pausing to talk to her, strangling her once more, pausing for her response and tightening it once more for a closing time.

'She would have realised that you just have been intending on slowly snuffing the life out of her.'

Newport Crown Court docket had heard Miss Symonds had a collection of intimate footage of Morgan, who's value £20million, which she threatened to indicate to his spouse and daughters.

She had footage of Morgan partaking in threesomes at his household residence, Beech Hill Farm in Usk, Gwent, in addition to pictures of her sporting his spouse's dressing robe there.

After over-hearing her plans to depart him, the father-of-two made a homicide package procuring record studying: 'String, 02, poly, glove, snip, deal with, tape, Particular Ok, starter, rag, adapter'.

Morgan confronted Miss Symonds - who had a five-year-old daughter - at her residence in January this yr, wrapping bailing twine round her neck and strangling her to dying.

The mother-of-one, described by household and mates as cussed and strong-willed, remained defiant till the tip along with her closing phrases directed at Morgan: 'You are going pay for this.'

Morgan then taped Georgina's legs behind her and wrapped her in a plastic sheet hooked up it to a metallic pole so he may carry her into the boot of his £52,000 Porsche Cayenne.

He then drove to an outhouse at his residence and hid her physique behind an industrial noticed.

Her homicide solely got here to gentle when she failed to choose her daughter up from faculty and her mom was contacted.

Morgan - who's estranged from his spouse Helen - admitted killing Miss Symonds however denied homicide on the grounds of diminished accountability and lack of management. The jury rejected his defence.

 Morgan was jailed final week for strangling the 25-year-old at her bungalow in Llanmartin, south Wales and dumped her physique in an outbuilding close to his residence

The choose stated: 'I've learn and re-read the psychiatric studies on this case. I discover as a truth that you just endure from Asperger's Syndrome however in my judgement, you could have solely a gentle type of that situation.

'You have been in a position to type a rational judgement and also you have been able to exercising self-control.'

The trial heard that Morgan had began utilizing prostitutes after a 'mid-life disaster' - throughout which he purchased an American fireplace engine and a British Military tank.

'I simply fancied a tank, a mid-life disaster. I had an Motion Man tank once I was younger and it is the identical mannequin. It simply appears good,' Morgan stated.

'I needed to place it on the highway till I realised how harmful it was. I acquired my licence prepared to make use of it.'

He additionally hung three deactivated weapons - together with an Uzi and an AK47 - from the partitions of his workplace and had a cupboard for legally-held shotguns at his farm.

Gwent Police's Detective Superintendent Roger Fortey stated: 'It is a tragic case that resulted within the dying of Georgina, the lack of a mom, daughter, sister and good friend to many.

'The actions of Peter Morgan have been calculated and he dedicated the act with out emotion.

'Hopefully this conviction will carry some closure to the household by way of the legal justice course of however we're in little doubt that Georgina's household and mates will proceed to mourn and grieve for the remainder of their lives.

'Our condolences stay with those that have suffered her loss.' 

For confidential assist name the Samaritans on 116123 or go to a neighborhood Samaritans department, see for particulars. 

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