DETECTIVES are still urgently trying to find a man wanted after a boy was sexually assaulted on Christmas Day.

Kieran Seery, 30, is wanted in connection with the incident which is said to have happened at a property in Accrington in the early hours of December 25.

Police said Seery, who is from Accrington, attended a property in Dowry Street at around 8.30am, but has not been seen since.

He is described as white, with cropped dark hair, wearing a dark tracksuit top and jeans and has numerous tattoos on his hands and neck.

Police believe he has a serious injury to his neck which requires urgent medical attention. Detectives are asking anybody who sees him, or knows where he may be, not to approach him but to contact us immediately.

Insp Andy Willis said: “We are asking anyone who knows where Seery may be to get in touch with us as soon as possible. Please do not approach him, but contact us on 101 with whatever information you have. We would also urge Kieran himself, if he sees this appeal, to do the right thing and get in touch.”

Anybody with information should contact us on 101, quoting log number 291 of December 25.

In 2011 Seery was deemed to be dangerous by a judge after seriously injuring a woman in the street.

Burnley Crown Court heard how a drunken Seery, then 22, left his victim unconscious and with a smashed jaw after yet another unprovoked assault, in the early hours in Accrington.

The court heard it was the third time Seery had dished out violence to women strangers, having previously stabbed a middle-aged woman in the back with broken glass and knocking out another victim’s two front teeth after head butting her.

The hearing was told Seery, who before October 2011, Seery had spent only seven months of the previous four years a free man, had not long been released and had been on licence and on a curfew when he committed the latest offence.

He was back in court after punching Alana Wilkinson, then 20, on August 30.

A witness, who told police how Ms Wilkinson fell back like a dead weight and landed on the ground with a thud, said the defendant was seemingly not bothered and ran off. After admitting to inflicting grievous bodily harm he was jailed for two and a half years.