Pathetic amount disgraced James Argent forced to pay his ex-girlfriend after attacking her revealed

SHAMED ex-Towie star James Argent was ordered to pay his ex-girlfriend just £250 in compensation for attacking her, we can reveal.

Argent, 37, was handed a six month suspended prison sentence after hurting Nicoline Artursson at their Spanish home.

He frogmarched her to the door of their picturesque beachfront property and pushed her down a set of steps.

The former Miss Sweden, 32, suffered several injuries to her neck, arms, hand and leg in the violent early-hours assault.

Cops wanted to charge Argent with wounding but settled for the lesser offence of ‘mistreatment’ after he agreed to a plea deal.

But court papers obtained by The Sun show Argent – who raked in £5,000-a-week last year – was only required to pay Nicoline a paltry £250 in damages.

Fuengirola’s Court of Violence Against Women also issued a two-year restraining order banning him from contacting her.

The court report reads: “During the argument, and with the intention of harming her physical integrity, he grabbed hold of her tightly by her arm and pushed her causing her to fall down the stairs.

“The injured woman suffered several bruises to her neck, a bruise to her right forearm, several abrasions to her right arm, and abrasions to her right hand and on her right leg.

“The injuries she suffered healed in seven days on skin and soft tissue.”

Beaming Argent returned to Spain on Friday and was filmed dancing with fans on stage and singing during a gig a stone’s throw from where he flew into a rage in Cala de Mijas.

A Spanish legal source said: “If he’s got all that money it’s no wonder he’s all smiles on stage.

“Compensation of just £250, for someone with his earning potential, is a drop in the ocean.

“The courts in Spain can’t pull cash compensation figures out of the air.

“They have to follow strict guidelines that revolve around medical bills victims can show they’ve had to pay or proven losses they’ve had because of time off work.

“But the amount James Argent has to pay here is small change for someone like him.”

But his hopes of obtaining a permanent visa in Spain appear to be over.

He wanted to work beyond the permitted 90 days but his conviction is likely to see his application rejected.

Argent also faces a 10-week domestic violence course as part of his sentence – and could be jailed if he fails to attend.

He will be forced to listen to survivors’ stories as part of the rehabilitation programme designed to help him construct a “new masculinity”.

A friend of Argent’s said he was “extremely sorry” and had expressed remorse.

But in a statement he issued hours later there was no apology.

Instead, he said he was “devastated” by what had happened but insisted he had not suffered a drink or drugs relapse.

He and Nicoline first went public with their romance last September when they flew to Saint-Tropez in the South of France.

In an Instagram post he wrote: “I honestly started to think that it might not happen for me but I found you and everything changed.”