A paedophile nursery worker has pleaded guilty to a string of new sexual offences including upskirting in a classroom.
Last month, Vincent Chan admitted sexually abusing children in his care in what officers described as among ‘the most significant and disturbing’ investigations in recent history.
Today, appearing at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court, the predator admitted to 26 new sexual offences.
Chan, 45, is facing years behind bars for molesting girls aged three and four while working at the Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead, north London.
He filmed himself carrying out the abuse, during naptime at the nursery, and also confessed to downloading thousands of indecent images of children.
On Thursday at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court, Chan appeared via videolink from HMP Pentonville to face 26 new charges.
He pleaded guilty to ten 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 now admitted filming up the skirts of children as they sat at tables in a classroom.
Paedophile nursery worker Vincent Chan has pleaded guilty to 26 new sexual offences today
Police also recovered images showing Chan exposing himself in a classroom in 2017, 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 February 12 for all 52 offences that he has now admitted.
It was revealed earlier this month that nurseries could be required to install CCTV following the Chan case.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson announced a local child safeguarding practice review in December to ‘learn every lesson we can to make sure that crimes like this are guarded against at every step and every stage’.
Pressed at the time to mandate CCTV in nurseries, Ms Phillipson said this could lead to other forms of child abuse if footage was misused.
She appointed an expert advisory group to develop guidance for the sector on the safe and effective use of CCTV.
Education minister Olivia Bailey then appeared to go further as she told the Commons the Government was ‘considering the mandatory use of CCTV in early years settings’ as part of the review.
This came in response to Labour former minister and MP for Hampstead and Highgate, Tulip Siddiq, who said: ‘The Secretary of State will know about the horrific sexual abuse case in one of my local nurseries.
‘So could I ask the Secretary of State, would she introduce mandatory CCTV in nurseries so that we can use it as a safeguarding tool?’
Speaking at education questions, Ms Bailey replied: ‘I thank (Ms Siddiq) for her advocacy for her constituents in what has been an absolutely appalling case, and my thoughts remain with all of the children and families who have been affected.
‘The safety of our children comes first, so we are considering the mandatory use of CCTV in early years settings through our review, which we are getting under way rapidly.’
In December, Chan – who was born in Britain – pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual assault of a child by penetration and four counts of sexual assault of a child by touching.
He also admitted 11 counts of taking indecent photographs of a child, and six counts of making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child.
