A hospital consultant who “washed his hands” of his family has been ordered to give his ex-wife everything in a 100% divorce ruling.

Anaesthetist Essam Aly, 54, left Enas, 46, and their two children in 2011 and then moved to Bahrain.

He has not paid maintenance or child support since 2012 and a family court judge ordered last July that the £560,000 family assets should all go to Enas.

Dr Aly, who worked at Queen’s Hospital in Burton upon Trent, East Staffs, launched a challenge but Court of Appeal judges have now thrown it out.

Lady Justice Macur said Dr Aly had shown himself to be ‘unwilling’ to provide any support to his former family.

The court heard both were medical professionals, the husband a consultant at Queen’s Hospital, in Burton-on-Trent, and the wife a GP in Derby.

They were married in 2002 and had two children, a son and a daughter, before separating in 2011. Dr Aly moved to Bahrain the following year.

At the Birmingham Family Court last year, the wife complained that she had received nothing from him since he left the UK.

Upholding the award, Lord Justice McFarlane said: “The judge had a case in front of him where he was entitled to hold there was no realistic expectation of getting any further maintenance out of the husband.”