A SPECIAL forces serviceman turned writer was slapped with a restraining order after an argument with a former partner led to furniture being thrown out of a window.

Philip Lewis Alexander Campion, a former colour sergeant in the Special Air Service, was involved in a heated row with Wendy Weit at a house in Milbury Crescent, Bitterne, on April 26 this year.

Southampton Crown Court heard how neighbours called the police after hearing shouting inside the house and noticing an upstairs window had been broken.

Furniture, which prosecutors described as a bed or a wardrobe, had been thrown out of the window and was on the ground below, the court heard.

Recorder Stephen Climie heard how police officers were called to the house at around 8pm. They found Campion in a “state of anger and distress” before he used an abusive word towards his partner.

The court heard how Campion, 45, of Milbury Crescent, spent three weeks in custody and was ordered to wear a tag.

Campion admitted a section five public order offence of using threatening, abusive, or disorderly behaviour in the incident.

Army veteran Campion, who goes by the nickname Big Phil Campion, has published two books since leaving the forces.

His debut book, Born Fearless, detailed how he completed commando and paramilitary selection before joining the SAS and fighting as a mercenary in the world’s toughest war zones.

He has since worked as a security consultant in the Middle East and the court heard how he was allowed relaxed bail conditions to travel to Albania for work in August.

In 2009 he celebrated selling 50,000 Utags – a USB-stick style device that holds personal information – and even presented former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher with one when the band played in Bournemouth.

Roger Carne, defending Campion, said Ms Weit suffered no injuries in the incident but had “slight reddening at the top of her neck”.

He told the court: “His relationship is over – the complainant is going to be living with her daughter.

“The defendant spends a lot of his life abroad. He spent three weeks in custody, three months on a tag, and he is someone whose bail conditions were completely relaxed in August when he was allowed to travel abroad working as a security consultant.

“He was in the regular army and was in the SAS as a colour sergeant.”

Recorder Stephen Climie sentenced Campion, who has no previous convictions, to a bind over order of £1,000, ordered him to pay £80 court costs, and handed him a 12-month restraining order.

He said: “At 45 years of age you come before the courts for the first time in relation to an incident that could best be described as a breakdown of a relationship and a violent encounter between you and a former partner.

“You have admitted a Section 5 offence where you behaved wholly inappropriately.”