A multi-millionaire Abergavenny property developer jailed for life for strangling his girlfriend is appealing his 25-year jail term.

Peter David Morgan, 55, was convicted last December of murdering Georgina Symonds by throttling the young mother with a length of twine and later dumping her body on a farm he owned.

Morgan, worth around £20m, was convicted at Newport Crown Court and ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years before he could be considered for release.

His case was heard at London’s Appeal Court on Tuesday this week, as Edward Fitzgerald QC launched a challenge to the “excessive” sentence. ??The case was adjourned by three sitting judges, of which a further hearing date was not set. ??Morgan, the court heard in his December 2016 trial, had become ‘jealous and obsessive’ leading up to the ‘carefully planned’ murder of Ms. Symonds, 25, in January that year.