21/12/2016 BBC Wales Today

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In Wales Today, life for Monmouthshire

Georgina Symonds' family says her death leaves

And the biggest unions at Port Talbot steelworks say it

will be for workers to decide if they accept a new pensions deal.

A millionaire businessman from Monmouthshire has

been jailed for life, after being found guilty

54-year-old Peter Morgan strangled Georgina Symonds,

before disposing of her body in a barn near Usk.

The Judge said Morgan killed her "in cold anger".

Georgina Symonds' family say her death has left a hole

in their lives that will never be repaired and left her five-year-old

Today, her killer, Peter Morgan, was jailed for 25 years

for what the judge called a carefully planned

This is a tragic case that has resulted in the death of Georgina.

The actions of Peter Morgan were calculated and he committed

Hopefully this conviction will bring some closure to the family, in terms

But we are in no doubt that Georgina's family and friends

will continue to mourn and grieve for the rest of their lives.

Peter Morgan indulging in his passion for restoring

historic buildings in this video shown to jurors at his trial.

But just a few short years after the multimillionaire

rebuilt this windmill, his passions were redirected

towards the murky world of escort girls and exotic dancers.

The Usk workshop he'd once used for his windmill project where he'd

eventually dumped the body of 25-year-old Georgina Symonds.

But in 2012, going through something of a midlife crisis,

the married father of two started seeing escorts.

Georgina Symonds became the centre of his world.

For more than three years, he pampered with luxury

gifts and fast cars, took her on helicopter flights,

paid for full body lyposuction, and gave her an income of up

Holed up in the grounds of Pencoed Castle, she descended

into a spiral of drug and alcohol abuse, following the suicide of her

She became abusive towards Morgan, she threatened to blackmail him,

He put a covert recording device in the bungalow,

With the device in place, Morgan accessed the bug 514 times

between November 2015 and Georgina's death in January.

He could call it directly from his phone, he'd called it Isobel.

He would listen in to conversations in the lounge between Georgina

and her new boyfriend, Thomas Ballinger, for up

But the prosecution say one particular conversation enraged him.

He heard her saying, once he signs the bungalow over,

I'm going to London to work as an escort.

The court heard that conversation is a possible catalyst for the chain

The day before he killed her, Morgan was caught on his own CCTV

picking up equipment from a barn in his 4X4.

A note found by police on his iPhone was a shopping list

of what he'd need to carry out what the prosecution

called a premeditated and well-planned murder.

He admitted strangling her with a home-made ligature made

of bailing twine as he sat next to her on the sofa

He then placed her body in his car and drove her to his former

CCTV footage from this property was shown to the jewellery.

It shows Peter Morgan arriving here at Beech Hill farm

The prosecution say he made a secure package of Georgina's body,

using plastic sheeting and tape and they say the video

shows him removing her body from the back of his car,

bound and trussed up, and attached to a metal pole

to enable him to carry it into the barn.

At first, he told police he did not know where Georgina was.

But within hours, he was confessing to killing her.

I had the intention to kill her, didn't I?

The trouble was, once I'd sort of attempted to murder her,

I'd be in a hell of a lot of trouble for that, and she would

still have gone on and blackmailed me, couldn't she?

Peter Morgan had always admitted the killing but his defence said

he was only guilty of manslaughter because he was on the

Today, that was dismissed by the jury, who found him guilty

As her family continue to grieve, they say her death has left them

broken and devastated and no sentence will be long enough

There is some uncertainty tonight over whether a deal to guarantee

steel-making at Tata sites in Wales, including at the UK's largest works

The two biggest unions at Port Talbot say they will leave

it to workers to decide whether to accept the proposals

The deal would see changes to the pension scheme but would also

include a billion pounds of investment.

I think they feel that they are being a bit railroaded into it.

I spoke to quite a few people over the weekend who said we don't really

think this is a good deal but this is the only game in town,

to be honest, and it is giving a lifeline of five, seven,

At least it is giving secure long-term jobs

At Cardiff Crown Court three men have been jailed for a total of 90

years for the murder of a 29-year-old man.

Dad-to-be Lynford Brewster was attacked and stabbed

Dwayne Edgar and Jake Whelan, both from Cardiff, and Robert Lainsbury

from Worcester laughed as they were handed life sentences.

A 69-year-old man has been jailed for 13 years for historic child

sexual offences committed over a number of years in Anglesey.

Robert John Parry from Trefor, appeared before

He will be placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life.

Unreliable mobile phone signals can be hugely frustrating,

so spare a thought for people who live in areas where

Now planning rules could be changed to help tackle mobile not-spots.

Changes have already been introduced in England and the UK Government

Mobile phone companies can put masts of up to 25 metres

in England and it's only now the Welsh Government

They then need to try and decide on their policy and then they need

to legislate in order to bring about those changes,

so I fear that Wales could be maybe up to 12 months behind England again

Last month Tesco opened in Aberystwyth,

and the next big brand store, Marks and Spencer,

But there are objections tonight to a proposed sign at the site

M bosses say 'food hall' is now a brand name and isn't translated

But Ceredigion councillors want all signs to be bilingual.

Although, it is one sign, it is very important in giving

an image of what M is about and as a main part

of the town, we would like M to put up this sign bilingually

and they will reap the benefits like other businesses in the town

Football and in the FA Cup, Newport County have failed to make it

through to the third round and a lucrative tie against Liverpool

after defeat tonight against Plymouth. It ended goalless after 90

minutes. Plymouth were awarded two penalties in extra time. They missed

the first but made no mistake with the second. Time for a look at the

weather forecast now. Today was the winter solstice but

the weather not particularly wintry at the moment. If anything, it is

going to turn increasingly windy and quite wet over the next few days. If

we take a look at the map, overnight rain clearing, temperatures dropping

lower than recent nights. Falling close to freezing inland with fog

and mist. Tomorrow, any early mist will clear. A lot of dry weather but

a few scattered showers as well. Across the UK, the best of the

bright and breezy weather across southern and eastern England.

Showers more likely in the West. A chance those showers could be wintry

in the hills across Scotland. Feeling cold in those strong winds.

Showers easing later across Wales. Bright and blustery and feeling

cooler than recent days. Tomorrow night starts fairly calm but

overnight, winds pick up and a deep area of low pressure moves in.

Scotland will bear the brunt of storm Barbra but Northwest Wales is

in the warning zone. There will be some rain but the emphasis on strong

winds. A potential for travel destruction. These are the average

wind speeds for Friday. Gusts will be stronger. Heavy rain pushing in

from the North West. And then that system should clear on Friday night

into Saturday morning. Still very blustery. And then more rain and a

warning of strong winds overnight into Christmas Day.

From all of us on the programme, good night.

There's family tradition of difficult Christmases.

Ben dropping a frozen turkey on Mum's foot.

Put me down! No, we talked about this.