A 36-YEAR-OLD man has appeared in court charged with raping a girl under the age of 13.

Alan Mee, of Railway View, Darwen, faces four charges of rape, four charges of having unlawful intercourse with the girl and 10 charges of indecently assaulting her.

He was sent on bail to be dealt with at Preston Crown Court and a condition of bail is that he does not have any unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 18.