A FORMER Vauxhall Motors worker has been found stabbed to death in the Philippines.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has confirmed that the body of Martin Williams, also known as Martin Hawthorne, was found at Boloc-Boloc Spring near the city of Tagbilaran – some 650 km from the capital Manila.

According to local reports the former Heswall dad was stabbed several times and also suffered a head injury.

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