Georgia Harrison wins document damages in revenge porn case in opposition to jailed Stephen Bear

Georgia Harrison will obtain a document quantity of damages from Stephen Bear, who was jailed in March after being discovered responsible of sharing a revenge porn video of him having intercourse along with her.

Bear should pay £207,900 to Harrison from jail – the best ever sum awarded in a picture abuse case.

It can also be one of many largest injury funds ever for a privateness declare regarding a single act.

In a press release, Harrison stated she will likely be donating a part of the damages to “multiple charities that have helped support me and other victims of image-based sexual abuse”.

She has additionally paid tribute to her authorized group.

Responding to the document damages, Hanna Basha from Payne Hicks Beach regulation agency stated: “This has been a difficult, complicated and emotional case.

“I’m happy that we had been capable of help Georgia, and I hope her energy in pursuing this highlights to different victims that there’s assist and help out there for them and that the courts take these issues very critically.”

Bear was discovered responsible of voyeurism, and two counts of revealing non-public, sexual pictures and movies in December.

Ms Harrison, who additionally appeared on Love Island, waived her proper to anonymity and stated she had been via “absolute hell” since 2020.

During a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, the prosecution stated Ms Harrison and Bear had consensual intercourse at his house in Loughton, Essex, however she didn’t know they had been being recorded.

Bear denied all fees and claimed at trial that he deleted the footage that day and had shared it with nobody aside from Ms Harrison.

During his trial, Bear’s Twitter account posted a “50% off” deal for his grownup leisure web site alongside a photograph of him arriving at court docket accompanied by his girlfriend Jessica Smith.

He was sentenced to 21 months in jail.

Since the conviction, Harrison has been among the many campaigners trying so as to add amendments to the Online Safety Bill, that can ban the sharing of deep-fake pornography – express pictures or movies which were digitally manipulated to appear like another person – with out the consent of these depicted.