Stephen Bear has been jailed for 16 months after breaching a restraining order tied to George Harrison, the latest turn in a case built around online abuse and court limits on what he could say. The sentence keeps him under punishment for posts that the judge said were meant to do maximum harm.
Bear, 36, admitted the breach at a previous hearing in June. On Thursday, His Honour Judge Christopher Morgan said the messages were posted between 1 March 2025 and 21 July 2025 and were among the “most abhorrent and harmful” type.
Christopher Morgan at Chelmsford Crown Court
That timeline matters because the court was not dealing with a single stray post. Bear had been told not to post or incite comments about Harrison or the earlier case, yet he began posting on Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube and Facebook while she was pregnant. The sentencing adds custody to a ban that was already designed to keep him off the same online channels he used before.
Judge Morgan said Bear’s posts and videos were made “to ensure the maximum harm [was] caused to Georgia Harrison.” He also told Bear: “You knew all of that was untrue, and yet you posted it,” and said, “What you did in that three to four month period is simply victim blaming.”
Georgia Harrison’s statement
Harrison told Chelmsford Crown Court that Bear’s online presence left her “feeling petrified” and that she feared for her safety for the first time. She described feeling isolated, exposed and unsafe, and said the stress made her worry about her unborn child and spiral on some occasions.
She also said: “I shut him out of my mind for a long time and it's not fair that he's managed to crawl his way back in,” a line that cuts through the legal language and lands on the real cost of a restraint breach.
The order stays in place
The restraining order now extends to stop Bear from contacting Harrison’s mother and her friend. That is the practical change readers should take from the sentence: the court has not just punished a past breach, it has widened the protection around Harrison while the original ban remains in force until a new order is put in.
The unanswered part is the exact content of the posts between 1 March 2025 and 21 July 2025. What is clear is enough on its own: Bear ignored a court boundary, the judge treated the breach as deliberate harm, and Harrison has had to relive the case because he tried to push it back into public view.
