Vincent Chan – London

A paedophile nursery worker has today admitted a series of 26 new sexual offence charges including filming up the skirts of girls as they sat in a classroom.

Vincent Chan, 45, is facing years behind bars for molesting and abusing girls aged three and four while working at Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead, north London.

He has now pleaded guilty to 52 sexual offences.

Chan filmed himself carrying out the abuse, during naptime at the nursery, and also confessed to downloading over 25,000 indecent images of children with some Category A showing rape and torture of children.

At Highbury Corner magistrates court on Thursday, Chan appeared via video link from HMP Pentonville to face 26 new charges.

He pleaded guilty to 10 counts of taking indecent photographs of children, six charges of outraging public decency, sexual assault on a female, and nine counts of voyeurism.

Because of his guilty pleas, Chan has admitted filming up the skirts of children as they sat at tables in a classroom.

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 had 13 images showing ‘two unidentified female child victims with the camera angled in a manner designed to capture intimate parts of her body’.

Police also recovered images showing Chan exposing himself in a classroom, as well as videos, believed to be of Chan, depicting a solo sex act.

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

Chan will be sentenced on 12 February for all 52 offences he has admitted.