Paedophile nursery worker Vincent Chan admits 30 new charges

A paedophile nursery worker has admitted 30 new charges, including filming up the skirts of girls in a classroom.

Vincent Chan is already facing years behind bars after pleading guilty last year to molesting girls aged three and four while working at a now-closed nursery in north London.

The 45-year-old filmed himself carrying out the abuse during naptime and also confessed to downloading thousands of indecent images of children.

On Thursday, Chan appeared in court, via videolink from HMP Pentonville, to admit another 30 charges.

Scotland Yard said the offences related to 16 victims, 10 of whom were children at the time, which did not take place at the nursery.

Before working at the site, police said Chan had worked in at a school in north London from 2007 to 2017.

At the hearing on Thursday, Chan pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a female, 12 counts of taking and making indecent photographs of children, six charges of outraging public decency and 11 counts of voyeurism.

Police said they recovered images showing him exposing himself in a classroom in 2017, and videos, believed to be of Chan, depicting a solo sex act, also in a classroom.

He also admitted to a campaign of voyeurism between 2011 and 2023.

Detectives said he placed hidden cameras around his home to film women getting changed, and also confessed to sexually assaulting a woman while she was asleep.

Chan will be sentenced on 12 February for all 56 offences he has now admitted.

In the new charges, Chan admitted taking indecent images of children in 2024 and 2025, as well as outraging public decency offences in a classroom between 2011 and July 2017.

Sixteen images were identified of a schoolgirl taken "from under a classroom table with the camera angled in a manner designed to capture intimate parts of her body".

Chan also admitted "taking seven photos of him holding his exposed penis in a classroom".

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In December, Chan pleaded guilty to 26 charges, including sexual assault by penetration and sexual assault by touching.

He worked at the nursery for seven years until he was suspended in 2024 after a colleague raised concerns and police launched an investigation.

On Thursday, lawyers at Leigh Day, who are representing some of the parents of victims at the nursery, said they were "sickened" to learn of Chan's further offending.

"These further allegations raise deeply troubling questions about how safeguarding systems could have failed so badly that someone actively offending was able to secure employment as a nursery worker and offend without intervention for a number of years," they added.

In December, the nursery said in a statement that it was "shocked and appalled" at the crimes and had commissioned an expert review of its safeguarding practices.

Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford, who led the investigation, said: "Vincent Chan is a dangerous and predatory individual, and the scale of his abhorrent offending is shocking.

"Chan's history demonstrates to us that he has sought out positions of trust involving contact with young girls, which allowed him to commit his crimes unchecked for so long.

"He has repeatedly exploited the trust of those around him, proving himself to be a danger to all girls and women."

Chan, of Finchley, north London, remains in custody ahead of his sentencing.

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