PETER Morgan told a psychiatrist who interviewed him after he had killed his 25-year-old lover Georgina Symonds that everything had gone wrong for him in the week before he killed her.
He told Dr Philip Joseph that he had been very upset about the possibility that Miss Symonds' daughter might be taken into care, which she blamed him for, and had thought that he would kill himself if that happened.
Before that last week he told Dr Joseph he did not feel in control of his emotions.
He had been increasingly worried too, about Miss Symonds' threats to blackmail him with photos of him with other women.
He had found it increasingly difficult to sleep and carry on his normal activities.
After listening in to a phone call when she told someone else of her intentions to blackmail him, he resolved to take back control of the situation.
Describing himself as "numb and devastated" he had intended to confront and frighten her to try to resolve things.
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