How can I delete an un-used email account? It is just junk

Years ago I had an account with Tiscali. I haven't used it for years. Some weeks ago just as an experiment I entered it's details to Thunderbird as an additional account. Since then daily over 50 junk emails arrive to this account. I would like to delete it from Thunderbird without affecting my two existing other accounts.

Suggest you empty all emails out of account first.
Save any want to keep in Local Folders.
Delete all others.
Then right click on Inbox and choose compact.
Empty the Junk folder and compact it
Empty Trash.
now remove the account - see image below as aid.
Tools > Account Settings
* select the account name you want to remove.
* click on 'Account actions'
* Select ' Remove account'
* click on OK

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