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Disgraced actuality TV star Stephen Bear was at present ordered to pay £27,500 inside three months for posting the intercourse tape of his former companion Georgia Harrison or face an additional 9 months in jail, a choose dominated.
His Honour Christopher Morgan informed Bear he should pay £22,5000 to the state as he had obtained this sum in revenue from illegally posting the movie and pay £5,000 to Georgia Harrison for the emotional and monetary misery he had induced her.
Bear thanked the choose and left Chelmsford Crown Court docket with out additional remark.
Ms Harrison earlier informed the courtroom Bear had not proven a ‘scrap of regret’ and had not paid ‘one penny’ in compensation for the emotional and monetary injury she had suffered after he posted the intimate movie on-line.
Interrupting Ms Harrison’s proof, Bear shouted from the dock: ‘The reality is I am harmless!’
Ms Harrison informed how style manufacturers had deserted her after the sex-tape was revealed on Bear’s OnlyFans website, costing her at the very least £30,000 in cancelled contracts.
The 34-year-old was jailed on March 3 final 12 months after being discovered responsible of voyeurism and of two counts of exposing personal sexual pictures and movies with intent to trigger misery.
He was free of jail on January 14, having served 10-and-a-half months of his 21 month sentence.
Georgia Harrison, points an announcement outdoors Chelmsford Crown Court docket, Essex, after her former companion Stephen Bear was ordered to pay £27,500 for posting a intercourse tape of her
Talking outdoors courtroom following the choice Ms Harrison mentioned she was grateful to the CPS and Essex Police ‘for all their exhausting work’
Stephen Bear wore an open pink shirt as he arrived at Chelmsford Crown Court docket to listen to how a lot cash he should pay for posting a sex-tape of his former companion Georgia Harrison
Bear was seen giving a thumbs-up as he arrived quarter-hour late to the courtroom listening to
The previous Superstar Massive Brother winner wore a pair of £16.50 loafers from ASOS as he appeared for the listening to
Talking outdoors courtroom following the choice Ms Harrison mentioned: ‘I’m grateful to the CPS and Essex Police for all their exhausting work to make sure the confiscation that was enforced at present and to the courtroom for awarding me the cash earned by the defendant by means of the proceeds of crime.
‘No one has the fitting to earn cash from any crime however to earn a lot from picture primarily based sexual abuse is sort of frankly abhorrent.
‘I feel it is necessary that anybody who commits this terrible crime ought to be made to present any cash they made again to the sufferer and likewise the judicial system, particularly after a profitable conviction.
‘I will be giving among the cash to charities of my alternative who supported me all through this ordeal.
‘And I simply need to thank Essex Police Drive, everybody who represented me, Decide Christopher Morgan for guaranteeing that justice as soon as once more is served.
‘And in addition I feel this can be a clear instance why it’s so necessary to report these types of crimes to the police. They’re there that can assist you so please do allow them to.’
Former Superstar Massive Brother winner Bear had arrived quarter-hour late to the 2pm listening to earlier at present, sporting a pink opened-neck shirt, gray trousers and a pair of of £16.50 loafers from ASOS.
His former companion, Love Island contestant Ms Harrison, had arrived on time, sporting a black coat, white collared prime and black sneakers.
In the course of the listening to she informed the courtroom: ‘Think about strolling right into a room and understanding that everybody had seen you in a sexual act.
‘I used to be on the lowest I’ve ever been. I could not exit, to the health club, to bars, everybody was speaking about it. Nearly each model dropped me till I bought my voice again [during the court proceedings].
‘However even after the responsible verdict some folks nonetheless will not work with me as a result of I’ve successfully been put into the porn business by somebody I used to be nothing however good to.
‘I felt violated, ashamed, embarrassed. I blamed myself for placing myself on this scenario with this particular person.
‘If I ever at some point I need to have youngsters that footage will all the time be on the market.’
Georgia Harrison (centre) was additionally seen arriving at courtroom for at present’s listening to
Ms Harrison arrives at Bear’s revenge porn confiscation listening to wearing a black coat, white collared prime and black sneakers
Ms Harrison added: ‘He has by no means proven a scrap of regret or apologised. He has not paid one penny, no trace that he would ever pay.
‘He made cash from that video which I do not assume is honest.
‘Bear carried out [sic] every thing he might to cover his belongings whereas he was in jail.’
Prosecuting counsel Andrew Bousfield urged the courtroom to order Bear to make a fee to Ms Harrison for the monetary and emotional injury she had suffered.
He informed the courtroom that Ms Harrison had gained a compensation order of £207,000 and an additional £205,000 in prices towards Bear however she was unlikely to ever to see the cash.
Mr Bousfield informed the courtroom: ‘The query for at present your Honour is what occurs that cash [the £22,305 profit Bear made from the sex tape].
‘Mr Bear offered his home whereas he was in jail that produced £60,000 revenue.’
The Crown’s barrister informed the courtroom that compensation orders are often break up between the Treasury and the police.
However he added: ‘Your Honour might additionally order the identical quantity [£22,305] to go to Miss Harrison.’
Georgia Harrison and Stephen Bear, pictured collectively once they had been courting
Bear was jailed on March 3 final 12 months for posting a sex-tape of his former companion. Bear and Ms Harrison are pictured collectively on sandy seaside once they had been collectively
Stephen Bear outdoors HMP Brixton following his launch from jail in January this 12 months
In a earlier listening to Bear was discovered to have profited £22,305.46 from the CCTV footage which was filmed in his backyard on August 2, 2020.
On the time of the video, Bear was posing as ‘a billionaire’ on his Twitter and YouTube accounts however was ‘the truth is closely overdrawn’, Essex Police monetary investigator Laura Mackenzie informed the courtroom in January.
Prosecutor Andrew Bousfield added ‘regardless of pretending to be a billionaire, his most useful asset on the time was promoting sexual movies’.
His important asset on the time was £60,000 in proudly owning his home, the courtroom heard.
His OnlyFans subscriber depend was mentioned to have jumped 43 per cent on account of the video, from 1,061 when it was uploaded on November 8, 2020 to 1,883 by the point his account was de-activated on December 8.
The footage was obtainable to subscribers behind a $9.99 (£7.84) paywall on his profile ‘@hollywoodbear’.
There was mentioned to have been a ‘leap up’ within the $9.99 purchases when the footage began ‘go viral’ and Ms Harrison turned conscious of it.
A complete of 273 subscribers bought the video and, following the usual 20 per cent reduce to OnlyFans, this earned him £1,650.98, the courtroom heard.
After the video was posted he adjusted his subscription price, from a variety of $7.50 (£5.89) to $50 (£39.28).
By way of further subscribers drawn in by the video, he was discovered to have earned £15,440.28, on prime of the £1,650.98 earned by means of the paywall, Ms Mackenzie informed the courtroom.
Calculations on how a lot Bear earned from the video had been debated throughout the listening to, and the choose famous that this was troubled by the convicted intercourse offender refusing take the stand and supply proof.
Police Mugshot of Stephen Bear, who was jailed final 12 months for voyeurism and of two counts of exposing personal sexual pictures and movies with intent to trigger misery.
Georgia Harrison and her new boyfriend Anton Danyluk arriving outdoors Chelmsford Crown Court docket earlier this month
Decide Christopher Morgan accepted Ms Mackenzie’s valuation of his earnings, and acknowledged it was tough to infer exactly what every new subscriber sought once they joined his account after the video’s launch.
He mentioned: ‘He had, by the point the account had been arrange, filmed himself and Georgia Harrison, that materials being the topic of the legal costs that he confronted.
‘The defendant plainly meant that that materials can be positioned onto his OnlyFans account.’
The OnlyFans listening to in January then moved instantly right into a second case relating to a fence round Bear’s property that Epping Forest District Council claims is simply too tall.
It was reiterated that Bear was unemployed and had no rapid prospects of getting a job.
His defence barrister within the second listening to mentioned: ‘He does not have a automotive to his title – we ask for a modest monetary penalty, there appears to be little goal in hammering him with a big monetary penalty.
‘As of at present, there is not employment, and there is not a assured contract (of employment), however actually the impression is that he is devoted to creating a lawful skilled profession.’
Decide Morgan acknowledged that he had ‘no sure or paid employment’ at current, however was glad Bear might pay the cash. He was ordered to pay a £500 fantastic and £4,707.05 in prices in 56 days.
However Bear not too long ago claimed he’s on Jobseeker’s Allowance and will solely pay Georgia Harrison £10-per-week
Bear’s two-bedroom end-of-terrace home in Loughton, Essex was offered for £400,000 on July 25 final 12 months, whereas he was in jail, however many of the proceeds went to his lenders to repay the mortgage.
Bear was pictured leaving an Aldi grocery store near is mother and father dwelling whereas carrying a pizza earlier this month after a earlier courtroom case in Chelmsford was adjourned
Bear has typically dressed up for the courtroom instances. He wore a pink swimsuit at a listening to on December 6 2022 after arriving in a white Rolls Royce
In one other earlier listening to earlier this month Bear was seen arriving into the courtroom holding a Louis Vuitton Pochette Voyage material journey bag price round £1,000
Ms Harrison has change into a campaigner towards revenge porn and violence since Bear’s trial. In October final 12 months, she appeared on stage at Labour’s convention in Liverpool to demand that abuse instances are given precedence in courts.
She mentioned it took two years from the day she reported the crime for Bear to be convicted and warned in regards to the influence of lengthy authorized processes on victims of different crimes, corresponding to rape and home abuse.
Following Bear’s conviction, she spoke out about her delight within the modifications to the regulation surrounding revenge porn and his landmark imprisonment.
On the time of his launch in January, Ms Harrison was starring within the newest sequence of Love Island: All Stars villa, the place she discovered love together with her new boyfriend Anton Danyluk.
After studying of his launch, Ms Harrison mentioned: ‘Truthfully, I really feel protected by the regulation, I’ve bought a restraining order on him, so he cannot come close to me and he cannot talk about me.
‘I feel everybody deserves to rehabilitate themselves and to discover a solution to change into a greater particular person and I actually hope for him that’s the case.
‘Other than that. I do not assume I will be overthinking it and I am simply going to take it daily, however simply strive to not let my previous, encroach on my current second.’
Stephen should put on an ankle tag all through the second half of his sentence.
A restraining order bans him from contacting Georgia for 5 years and he should additionally hold police knowledgeable of his whereabouts for a decade.
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