Georgia Harrison on Online Safety Bill and the sentence handed to ex partner
REALITY TV star Georgia Harrison has welcomed changes to the Online Safety Bill that will remove the requirement to prove distress was caused in revenge porn cases.
She told GB News: “After what happened to me, I had so many men and women reaching out to me and saying, you know, ‘I don’t have a right to go to the police. I don’t have a right to justice, because I can’t prove that this person intended to cause me distress. However, they’ve near enough ruined my life. I feel like I’ve got nothing to live for’.
“They asked, ‘Why should I not be entitled to justice in the way you are?’ And that’s why I’ve done everything I can to campaign to have things changed and apparently everything is going to change. So, it’s really exciting news for me.”
In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, she addressed the 21-month prison sentence handed down to her former lover Stephen Bear for releasing a video of them together.
She said: “I think it was a fair sentence. I truly think not just from the crime he caused but for the way he held himself over the years in the lead up to the trial.
“And outside the trial, it was very clear that he had no remorse. He had a complete lack of empathy for the pain he caused me, and I truly feel he did deserve to go to jail, not just for society but also for himself.
“But I’m not a hateful person. I don’t spend a lot of my time thinking about him anymore. If anything, the best outcome for him would be that he realises what he’d done wrong and somehow tries to rehabilitate himself and carry on with his life as a better person.”
Georgia added: “The Government has completely taken on board everything I was saying, and they’d already okayed making amendments and putting this all into the Online Safety Bill.
“So, to me it was just a miracle and I’m still mind-blown that it happened so quickly. And I think it’s a real testament to Britain and our government, that they actually listened and made the relevant changes as quickly as possible.”
