Mugging Victim Alan Barnes Will Pay Fundraiser’s Entire PR Bill

Mugging victim Alan Barnes has offered to pay the entirety of the PR bill for Katie Cutler, who raised £330,000 for him in order to buy him a new home where he would feel safe after he was mugged.

She racked up thousands of pounds of debt to Claire Barber PR, who helped to promote her charity work.

Alan has now offered to pay the full amount of Katie's debt.

There were concerns that Katie would be unable to pay the bill. However, online fundraisers were able to raise just over £6,000 to cover Katie's debt to Claire Barber, the CEO of Claire Barber PR.

Now Alan Barnes has stepped in and said he will pay the full bill. Seems a tad late, but perhaps he'll give her some more to tie her over?

Last week it was reported that Alan, who is 4ft 6in and disabled, had offered only £10 towards the bill.

Then he told Mirror Online: "It's easy for people to say, 'he's got a lot of money, cough up' but you've 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."

Now he appears to have changed his tune.

Some had suggested that the PR company responsible for publicising the campaign should waive the fee.

However, Claire Barber, the CEO of Claire Barber PR, said: "I'm a very hard-working single mum running a business, and I wish I could afford to write it off but I can't."

At least now it's all been sorted.

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James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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