marriage breakdown – joint mortgage?

my friend has left his wife after 10 years of marriage a couple of months ago. to cut a long story short, he wasn’t happy anymore. she was very controlling in that she wanted all of his time to be spent with her – it was ok to socialise with her friends as a couple, but his friends were dropped and his visits to his family were rare (he’s from a close family, she isn’t). he woke up and realised one day that he didn’t want to be in that relationship anymore – he has been 100% honest with her and moved back in with his parents. she had never had much in her life before as her ex took everything and left her with nothing. my friend felt bad enough leaving so said that she can have all of the contents in the house and can have the house if she wants – he was happy to leave his name on the mortgage for the forseeable future as if he took it off, it would mean she would have to have new mortgage and theirs is so low at the moment it would be stupid to lose that deal. her credit was not that good so they had credit in his name and both agreed after the split that they would both pay it equally. anyway, since splitting, he’s been out for a drink with a girl (nothing serious but hes just trying to get a life back) and his ex has heard about it on the grapevine and reacted very badly to it, has now stopped paying her share of the debts. she knows that legally it’s in his name so there is nothing he can do about it. he’s a student as he started a 4 year course in september and has minimal income i.e. student loan and cannot afford to shoulder all of the payments of the debt – which she knows all too well.

she refuses to allow him access to the property so he can’t get a lot of his stuff. she has told her solicitor that she is scared of my friend (he’s not got a violent bone in his body and she knows that) and is looking to get an injunction against him. the income he has is so low that i can’t see the debt companies agreeing to the rate that he can afford to pay them back. she won’t sell the property and refuses to change the mortgage, so she’s living in the house with a low mortgage laughing while my friend is stuck with all their debts (a large chunk of them accumilated by her before they married, they consolidated them in his name). she will not negotiate and will not reason. other than going bankrupt to get is name off the mortgage, what can he do? what are his rights with regard to this..? he doesn’t live there, he doesn’t want the house, she can have it, he wants to be away from her now but she’s blocking him. he wants to sell up (no equity in house so no money in it, just to tie everything up and be gone from her) or have his name removed, she won’t do it. what next?? is he going to have this for the rest of his life?!?1