Adam Bonnell’s brief taste of freedom was cut short when he threatened to kill a support worker at a bail hostel and “blow the place to smithereens”.
With its swathe of sand meeting the River Ribble estuary at the far south end of the Fylde Coast, Lytham’s prominence is captured in these old photos.
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