A "DANGEROUS" Pendle pervert said to prey on young girls has been banned indefinitely from every caravan and camping site in the country to protect youngsters on holiday.

Convicted sex offender Anthony Stock, who also uses the name Kirkbright, has a record for unlawful sex with a girl with learning difficulties and detaining children without authority.

Police last year applied for an interim Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) after it was said he tried to lure a frightened little girl into a caravan he was using in Lancaster.

Stock, said to have offered the child sweets and threatened her with violence, has now been made subject to a full SOPO which will continue until a further order is made. The 39-year-old, of Extwistle Street, Nelson, is already on the Sex Offenders' Register.

Under the SOPO, Stock must not allow anybody under 16 into his house and is banned from associating with any female below the age of 16 except under the supervision of an adult deemed appropriate by the social services.

Stock, who lives with his partner, is not allowed to enter any caravan parks, camping or holiday home establishments. He did not oppose the order.

Police solicitor Sue McLane told the court the purpose of the interim order was for a risk assessment to be carried out by the NSPCC. The organisation indicated Stock posed a high risk of re-offending unless provisions were put in place to protect the public.

Stock was convicted of unlawful sex in 2000 after taking his victim into an unoccupied house on the pretext of collecting furniture. The girl had a mental age of about nine.

Last year police received a complaint from a mother who said Stock had approached her 10-year-old daughter at a caravan site launderette in Lancaster.

Stock told her if she did not go with him he would hit her.