In a deeply disturbing court hearing, convicted paedophile and former nursery worker Vincent Chan has admitted to thirty additional criminal charges, expanding the already extensive catalogue of his predatory behaviour against women and young girls.
Shocking New Admissions in Court
The 45-year-old defendant, appearing via videolink from HMP Pentonville on Thursday 29 January 2026, pleaded guilty to a series of further offences that reveal a prolonged pattern of exploitation and abuse. These latest admissions bring the total number of charges he has confessed to across multiple hearings to fifty-six separate counts.
Scotland Yard confirmed that the new offences relate to sixteen victims, with ten of them being children at the time the crimes were committed. Significantly, these particular incidents did not occur at the north London nursery where Chan previously worked, indicating his offending extended beyond that single location.
Detailed Breakdown of Offences
The comprehensive list of charges to which Chan pleaded guilty includes:
- One count of sexual assault of a female
- Twelve counts of taking and making indecent photographs of children
- Six charges of outraging public decency
- Eleven counts of voyeurism
Police investigators revealed particularly disturbing details about Chan's classroom-based offending. They recovered images showing him exposing himself in a classroom during 2017, along with videos believed to depict him performing a solo sex act in the same educational setting.
Systematic Voyeurism Campaign
Perhaps most chilling is Chan's admission to conducting a systematic campaign of voyeurism spanning from 2011 to 2023. Detectives discovered he had placed hidden cameras throughout his home specifically to film women getting changed without their knowledge or consent.
In one particularly egregious instance, Chan confessed to sexually assaulting a woman while she was asleep, demonstrating a complete disregard for personal boundaries and consent.
Previous Convictions and Employment History
This latest court appearance follows Chan's guilty plea in December to twenty-six previous charges, including sexual assault by penetration and sexual assault by touching. Those offences involved the molestation of girls aged just three and four years old while he worked at a now-closed nursery in north London.
Disturbingly, police records show Chan filmed himself carrying out this abuse during naptime at the nursery. He also previously admitted to downloading thousands of indecent images of children.
Before his employment at the nursery, Chan worked at a school in north London from 2007 to 2017, raising serious questions about how safeguarding systems failed to detect his predatory behaviour across multiple educational institutions.
Specific Classroom Offences
The new charges include particularly invasive classroom-based crimes. Chan admitted to taking indecent images of children in 2024 and 2025, along with outraging public decency offences committed in a classroom between 2011 and July 2017.
Investigators identified sixteen images of a schoolgirl taken "from under a classroom table with the camera angled in a manner designed to capture intimate parts of her body." Additionally, Chan confessed to "taking seven photos of him holding his exposed penis in a classroom."
Reactions and Consequences
Lawyers from Leigh Day, representing some parents of victims from the nursery, expressed being "sickened" upon learning of Chan's further offending. They stated: "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."
The nursery itself issued a statement in December expressing being "shocked and appalled" at Chan's crimes and confirmed they had commissioned an expert review of their safeguarding practices.
Police Commentary
Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford, who led the investigation, provided a stark assessment: "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 worked at the nursery for seven years until his suspension in 2024, which occurred after a colleague raised concerns and police launched their investigation. He will face sentencing for all fifty-six offences on 12 February.
The 45-year-old, from Finchley in north London, remains in custody awaiting his sentencing hearing, where the full extent of his crimes will be formally addressed by the justice system.
