Stephen Bear sentenced for 21 months for OnlyFans revenge porn
Stephen Bear arrived on the courthouse in a chauffeur-driven white Rolls-Royce on Friday, however the disgraced English actuality TV star left at the back of an Essex police car.
A U.Ok. court docket has sentenced Bear to 21 months in jail after he shared CCTV footage of himself and “Love Island” star Georgia Harrison having intercourse.
Bear uploaded the movies to OnlyFans with out Harrison’s consent and made greater than £2,000 (roughly $2,400), in response to the Independent. The then-couple was captured having intercourse on safety cameras in Bear’s backyard in Loughton, Essex, on Aug. 2, 2020.
According to the Independent, the prosecution mentioned though the intercourse was consensual, Harrison had no concept they have been being filmed. When Bear confirmed her the footage, she made it clear she was upset and insisted he “never to send” it to anybody.
The complainant mentioned she turned conscious that Bear shared the footage on WhatsApp that day, and later that yr found it was circulating on-line.
Last yr, Harrison mentioned she was a sufferer of revenge porn, and hoped that talking out would give different victims the braveness to hunt justice. Revenge porn is taken into account the act of sharing sexually specific supplies involving somebody who has not agreed for the content material to be shared. It may be particularly frequent as a type of retaliation after a breakup. Revenge porn turned a legal offense in England in 2015, a yr after California made it unlawful to create or distribute revenge porn.
Bear, who gained “Celebrity Big Brother” and appeared on “Ex on the Beach,” denied all prices towards him, claiming that he by no means shared the footage and deleted it the day he found it.
But the Chelmsford Crown Court discovered him responsible of voyeurism and two counts of revealing non-public sexual images and movies with intent to trigger misery. Now Bear is required to signal the intercourse offenders’ register, and can’t legally contact Harrison for the following 5 years.
After Bear was taken into custody, Harrison spoke exterior the court docket, saying she was “happy and relieved that this matter is finally over.”
“Today’s sentence is a vindication of what I’ve been put through and sends a clear message that the police and the courts take this matter very seriously,” she mentioned.
“I want to let all other victims of this crime know that I stand in solidarity with them and I have absolutely no regrets on waiving my anonymity. I hope that this puts anyone off committing this sort of crime and I hope for anyone else who has been a victim of it [that] it gives them some sort of justice.”