Disabled pensioner Alan Barnes has called for his attacker to be sent to jail when he is sentenced this week . Richard Gatiss knocked visually impaired , 4ft 6in Mr Barnes to the ground outside his home in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear in a cowardly attack which shocked Britain earlier this year . Drug addict Gatiss will find out his punishment when he comes before a judge at Newcastle Crown Court on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to assault with intent to rob . Scroll down for video . Alan Barnes , who was bundled over outside his home in January , has called for his attacker to be jailed . Mr Barnes today called for Gatiss , who has been kept behind bars for his own safety , to feel the full weight of the law . He told ITV 's This Morning : 'He needs to go to prison , because otherwise he might just do it to someone else . Somebody else might get something worse done to them than what happened to me . ' The frail 67-year-old , who was born with growth problems after his mother contracted German measles while pregnant , said he did n't believe Gatiss 's belated apologies . He said : 'It does n't [ make a difference ] because it 's easy for somebody to say that but still do it to somebody else afterwards , so I 'd like the law to take its course . ' More than £330,000 was raised to help Mr Barnes after the details of what happened to him travelled around the world . Today , sitting with local beautician Katie Cutler who organised the fund-raising campaign , he said he would be buying a new house . Legal-high addict Richard Gatiss has admitted the cowardly attack and will be sentenced later this week . Mr Barnes said : 'Half of its going on the house and I 'll use the rest for living on . It 'll keep us going . ' Telling of his joy at moving out of the area in which he was attacked , he added : 'As soon as I got to my feet , it was just plastered in my mind that I ca n't live here any more . ' At a hearing earlier this month , Judge Paul Sloan QC told Gatiss he would continue to be remanded in custody and 'an immediate sentence of imprisonment is pretty well inevitable ' . It has previously been said in court that Gatiss was trying to get money to buy legal highs when he tried to mug Mr Barnes . Mr Barnes was shoved over and broke his collar bone but Gatiss fled empty-handed when his victim called for help . Mr Barnes revealed he will use half of the £330,000 raised by local beautician Katie Cutler to buy a new home .
Partially - sighted year - old was beaten in custody which provoked Britain . His attacker , Richard Gatiss , is due to be sentenced later this week . ben Barnes calls for drug dealers to be jailed to prevent further crimes . He says he 'll use some of the £ 330,000 raised for him to buy a car .