Stephen Bear released from prison after serving 11 months for releasing sex tape of ex Georgia Harrison
Stephen Bear has been released from prison after serving 11 months for releasing a sex tape of his ex Georgia Harrison.
He was pictured leaving HMP Brixton earlier today (17 January).
The 33-year-old was sentenced to 21 months in prison last year on 'revenge porn' changes against former dating show favourite, Harrison, 29.
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The disgraced television personality had shared a private video of him and ex-girlfriend Harrison having consensual sex in his garden on his OnlyFans account back in August 2020.
Sexual assault activist Harrison was unaware she was being recorded on his home CCTV, however, as prosecutor Jacqueline Carey KC told attendees of Chelmsford Crown Court last year.
Bear subsequently made £2,000 off selling the online footage, after which he was found guilty of voyeurism and two counts of disclosing private, sexual photos and films.
Since then, the ex-Love Islander, who is now in the new All Stars series, has remained a campaigner in seeing revenge porn laws changed.
Judge Master Victoria McCloud previously released a statement on the matter following the court ruling last year (26 July).
"This is a case where the term 'revenge porn' is sometimes used, it’s a colourful term for the media," McCloud stated.
"This is a gross act of violation by a man towards a woman through the medium of the internet. A more appropriate term is image-based abuse.
"Pornography is generally actually something done consensually. It was consensual sex but it certainly wasn’t consensual filming, and it was deeply violating."
While Harrison’s barrister Gervase de Wilde added: "The defendant has been completely unrepentant, there’s no apology, and he has not offered assurances about the video and dealings with it in the future.
"He is completely brazen, even in the face of his conviction.
"The only activity he had undertaken is to attempt to dissipate assets, being more focused on the consequences of this claim than actually engaging with the substance."
The barrister added: "This case is the most serious single infringement of privacy rights that has ever come before this court by way of a damages claim.
"The video had enormous circulation, global circulation."
Harrison previously broke her silence after finding out Bear would be released after only serving 11 months in prison.
Opening up to The Sun, Harrison insisted she just wants to 'move on' with her life following almost four years of devastation.
"So for me, I don't really have much fear or any concerns about his release from prison.
"You know, his life journey now is his life journey, and that's for him to figure out if he can rehabilitate himself.
"I have a restraining order on him, so I don't feel that he'll be saying anything about me that's going to affect me."
Rhiannon Ingle