Thomas Thornton: Last News

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!An abandoned farmhouse in Poulton-Le-Fylde, Lancashire, has become a time-capsule filled with old family possessions from bygone eras.Pittfield Farm dates back to the 1880s and was abandoned after the death of the previous owner five years ago.Known locally as 'the house where time has stood still' was once known as Red Poll farm and was built by a roadsman called Thomas Thornton, Lancs Live reports.His daughter, Mary Thornton, married a local railway man by the name of Thomas Henry Crane at St Anne's Church which was witnessed by their friends, the Cookson family, who lived locally to the farm.Thomas and Mary had one daughter, also named Mary, who would later marry another Thomas,

Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A woman tried and failed to fight off a car thief but she was able to track him down via a Facebook appeal and see him jailed.Thomas Thornton, 35, admitted offences of robbery, fraud and affray over the attack, at Manchester Crown Court, and was sentenced to five and half years behind bars for that and other offences.A career criminal, who committed his first robbery aged just 11, he now has more than 140 offences on his record, including his last conviction for robbery in 2010 when he stole a car by biting his victim's hand to get the keys.Thornton, of no fixed abode, was back up to his old tricks targeting a young woman visiting Failsworth Primary Care Centre, reports the Manchester

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attacked his sister in front of her children and threatened to stab the family dogs shouted "thank you a***hole" at a judge after he was jailed for the horror incident. Thomas Thornton, 35, is a career criminal who committed his first robbery aged just 11, Manchester Crown Court was told.

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