A sprawling castle estate where a millionaire ‘sugar daddy’ strangled his 25-year-old escort girlfriend is up for auction for just under £1million.

Peter Morgan strangled former burlesque dancer Georgina Symonds at her rent-free bungalow in the grounds of Pencoed Castle in Llanmartin, south Wales, in a ‘premeditated and carefully planned’ murder.

Now, the Grade II-listed castle – including the bungalow on its grounds – is up for auction with a guide price exceeding £950,000.

Father-of-two Morgan paid Miss Symonds up to £10,000 per month to be his ‘exclusive’ escort and allowed her to live rent-free in the bungalow where she was killed. 

But the pair’s arrangement fell apart as Morgan – who was worth £20million – became ‘increasingly controlling and obsessive’ and used listening devices to spy on his mistress.

Morgan, who’s father is the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Gwent, David Morgan,  believed Miss Symonds was planning to blackmail and ‘fleece’ him.

Peter Morgan (left) strangled former burlesque dancer Georgina Symonds (right) at her rent-free bungalow in the grounds of Pencoed Castle in Llanmartin, south Wales, in a ‘premeditated and carefully planned’ murder

He dumped her body in an outbuilding of his large, rural home near his former family home in Usk, Gwent but later attended a police station and confessed. 

Morgan, who was 54 at the time of the killing, was ordered to serve at least 25 years behind bars for the killing. It is not known if he still owns the property.

Planning permission to restore the castle – dating back to 16th century – comes with the sale, the auction house told The Sun. 

At his sentencing judge Mr Justice Neil Garnham QC said: ‘This killing was premeditated and carefully planned. In my judgment you must have caused Georgina Symonds significant physical and mental suffering as you strangled her, pausing to speak to her, strangling her again, pausing for her reaction and tightening it again for a final time.

‘She would have realised that you were intending on slowly snuffing the life out of her.’ 

Newport Crown Court had heard Miss Symonds had a series of intimate pictures of Morgan, who is worth £20million, which she threatened to show to his wife and daughters.

She had pictures of Morgan engaging in threesomes at his family home, Beech Hill Farm in Usk, Gwent, as well as images of her wearing his wife’s dressing gown there.

After over-hearing her plans to leave him, the father-of-two made a murder kit shopping list reading: ‘String, 02, poly, glove, snip, handle, tape, Special K, starter, rag, adapter’.

Morgan confronted Miss Symonds – who had a five-year-old daughter – at her home in January 2016, wrapping bailing twine around her neck and strangling her to death.

The mother-of-one, described by family and friends as stubborn and strong-willed, remained defiant until the end with her final words directed at Morgan: ‘You’re going pay for this.’ 

Morgan then taped Georgina’s legs behind her and wrapped her in a plastic sheet attached it to a metal pole so he could carry her into the boot of his £52,000 Porsche Cayenne.

He then drove to an outhouse at his home and hid her body behind an industrial saw.

Her murder only came to light when she failed to pick her daughter up from school and her mother was contacted. 

Morgan – who is estranged from his wife Helen – admitted killing Miss Symonds but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility and loss of control. The jury rejected his defence.        

Morgan was filmed by a police ‘bodycam’ telling officers he had no idea where Georgina Symonds was on the day he had murdered her. He was today jailed for life for her murder