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Disabled mugging victim Alan Barnes has called for others to help his fundraiser Katie Cutler after she became involved in a PR cash row.

The 68-year-old, who moved into a new home with the money raised for him by Katie, says he will donate a “small amount” of around £10 to the cause.

Alan received £330,000 in donations from well-wishers after being attacked and left with a broken collarbone while putting his bins out in Low Fell.

Money began to pour in for the 4ft 6in Christian after beautician Katie set up an online fundraising page.

Now, Katie is being threatened with bailiffs after being landed with a £6,687 PR bill.

Claire Barber, of Alnwick, Northumberland, offered to help raise the profile of Katie’s charitable foundation set up after Alan’s attack in January 2015, for £550 a day.

But because mum Katie donated the money raised to Alan and other good causes, she does not have the cash which Ms Barber is now claiming in a county court order.

Alan, who has put his Gateshead house up for sale, has suggested that the bill could be paid by fundraisers.

He said: “I would suggest that someone sets up a small fund to raise money to pay for Katie’s PR.

“It’s not a big amount and I think a lot of people would actually like to do that for Katie. I’m quite happy to put just a small donation in because I don’t want to show off.”

When asked how much he was willing to donate, Alan said: “A small amount to me is £10 or something.”

He added: “It’s easy for people to say ‘he’s got a lot of money, cough up’ but you got to look into all the alternatives.

“It might seem hard but if I start handing it out, other people might ask for money. It was given to me on the understanding that I use it for myself.

“A lot of people just want it to stay with me.”

Speaking of the PR row, Alan said Ms Barber arrived on the scene after the coverage of Katie’s fundraising appeared in the Chronicle.

He said: “They [the PR company] didn’t really do anything for me, the publicity really came through the Chronicle.”

Alan says he hasn’t seen Katie for over a year and spends his time walking and talking to people he meets, regularly attending Wrekenton Methodist Church where he sits in the front row.

He plans to live off the money raised for him and says he will make a donation to charity when he dies from any leftover cash.

Ms Barber, CEO of Claire Barber PR, said in a statement: “Katie Cutler employed Claire Barber PR to handle her PR in March 2015.

“We worked together for four months achieving blanket bespoke PR coverage across almost every national newspaper, multiple TV news channels across the NE and UK including Sky, ITN, ITV, the BBC and Channel 4, Radio 2 and an exclusive negotiated interview on ITV This Morning that took a considerable amount of time to set up. Also hundreds of emails, calls and planning.

“It was an enormous amount of work with phenomenal success. Katie made two payments in June 2015, then proceeded to write all over social media her shock at getting our bill (which was agreed prior to any work undertaken).

“At this point we offered her a payment plan, but she wouldn’t respond to anything. As a small family business with an impeccable reputation and after over a year and still no payment, we had no choice but to go to the small claims court.

“Katie didn’t respond with any defence to the small claims court either other than acknowledgement of papers. We are a small, hard working company and we are simply not able to carry this debt.

“We are incredibly shocked with the way Katie has belittled our hard work and devotion to the four-month project that Katie commissioned us for.”

In the months after the attack, Alan got a “calling from God” to move to the Shetland Islands.

But he decided to stay put and is now looking for another home in the Gateshead area.

His attacker, Richard Gatiss, of Split Crow Road in Gateshead, was jailed for four years after admitting assault with intent to rob.