SELF-confessed sugar daddy Peter Morgan is from a model family of country respectability - just six months before the killing his father was at Buckingham Palace getting an MBE from the Queen.

He kept his secret life of buying sex from prostitutes away from the eyes of his prestigious country set parents, who were described as "devastated" by his fall from grace.

Morgan is the eldest of three children of David Morgan, president of the Royal Welsh Show and Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Gwent in his role as the Queen's formal representative in their home county.

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Church-going Mr Morgan, now 75, started running the family dairy farm aged just 19 after the death of his own father, bringing in revolutionary robotic milking techniques to build up the family fortune.

Son Peter Morgan was born with a silver spoon in his mouth which he went on to turn into gold with a £20m fortune. He left his father's business - supplying more than one million chickens a year which, he sells on to retailers including Morrisons and McDonalds - to set up his own company making steel farm buildings.

Morgan sold it and moved into property with his portfolio includes several farms, a castle and an historic windmill which he renovated into a holiday let.

He and his devoted wife Helen, 50, were married in 1992 after wooing her by driving them on their first date in his Porsche to a Young Farmers dance.

The couple had two daughters and seemed the model of wealthy middle-class respectability as they built up their fortune.

But he was drawn into the seedy world of escorts and sex websites which he blamed on his "mid-life crisis". At a lap dancing club in Cheltenham his friends showed him how to surf the web on his new i-Phone, and was directed to sex website Adultwork.com.

A search for escorts available in South Wales found a pretty blonde named Hannah James - who transpired to be Georgina Symonds using a pseudonym.

He could afford to indulge his secret passion - lavishing Georgina with spa days, helicopter rides, plush hotel stays, and piano lessons.

He also splashed out £8,000 so she could undergo liposuction at a Harley Street clinic and gave her up to £10,000-a-month in spending money.

His mid-life crisis also included compulsive spending habits on "boys toys" including more sports cars, an American fire engine and guns.

He revealed he once bought a decommissioned tank "because it looked like an Action Man one I had as a child".

He also owned several guns including an AK47 he stored at one of his family farmhouses. One of his purchases was 45-roomf Pencoed Castle in Llanmartin where Georgina Symonds was strangled to death.

Morgan bought the 13th century castle in 2001 and was later granted planning permission to build 12 houses and offices on the site.

One of the buildings later built was the bungalow where Georgina lived for free - and was killed in by Morgan.

His father David has to the court every day to see his son on trial for murder but mother Nancy "chose to stay away" as details of his secret life emerged.

Robert Hugh Thomas Davies, a solicitor and friend of the family, said Morgan was considered a "success story" around Monmouthshire after building up his property empire.

Mr Davies said Morgan was considered a "local boy", saying: "I'd say his whole life has revolved around three square miles."

Morgan put his own personal worth at £20m - including an £8m pension pot. But his property empire and private collection of military memorabilia pushes his value well above that figure.

Peter Morgan is starting life behind bars - but he will come out still a very rich man.