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Stephen Bear ‘to be released from jail for birthday’ as revenge porn sentence ‘cut in half’-Kitty Chrisp-Entertainment – Metro
He turns 34 on January 15.
He is reportedly being released before his birthday on January 15 (Picture: PA)
Stephen Bear is reportedly being released from jail after only serving 11 months of his 21-month sentence.
The convicted sex offender, 33, was given jail time after he uploaded a sex tape of him and Georgia Harrison online without her permission in exchange for cash.
It is believed he will be released from prison before his birthday on January 15, reports The Sun.
He was sentenced to the term in March, and he is said to have vowed to keep away from social media on his reported release.
A source told the publication: ‘Stephen has served his time – and he’s due out of prison in the next few weeks.
‘However, he’s been telling pals he’s not the same man that went into prison.
Bear’s prison sentence is reportedly being cut in half (Picture: ITV)
Georgia Harrison bravely told her story in a documentary, released in March (Picture: PA)
‘There will be no hopping back on to social media or rolling straight back into the nearest nightclub when he gets out, he says he just wants to get back to east London and his family.’
‘Obviously time will tell if he has changed his ways.’
In July, Bear was ordered to pay Harrison over £200,000 for breach of privacy, making it one of the highest-ever payouts for such a case.
As well as being sentenced to a spell in prison, Bear was also ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register and given a restraining order to not contact Harrison for five years.
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Bear has been working for ’60p an hour’ in his prison job packaging tea and coffee for fellow inmates, according to the publication, who also reported his fiancé Jessica Smith dumped him back in September.
Love Island star Georgia, 29, and Bear, who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, were recorded having sex on CCTV cameras in his garden in August 2020.
Georgia recounted how she felt ‘damaged’, ‘ashamed’, ‘used’ and ‘violated’ from her privacy being invaded in such a way, as she walked viewers through her two-year ‘hell’ in ITV documentary Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear, released in March.
In a few WhatsApp messages shown in the documentary, Bear appeared to call Georgia ‘attention-seeking’ and a ‘crazy person’ for calling him out on the crime.
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