Paedophile nursery worker admits 26 new sexual offences including filming up girls’ skirts as they sat in classroom

A pedophile nursery worker has admitted a raft of new charges, including filming up the skirts of girls sitting in class.

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

Last month he admitted sexually abusing children in his care, in what officers described as among the ‘most significant and disturbing’ investigations in recent history.

The predator admitted 26 new sexual offenses at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court today.

He filmed himself carrying out the abuse during bedtime in the nursery and also admitted downloading thousands of indecent images of children.

At Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Thursday Chan faced 26 new charges via video link from HMP Pentonville.

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

Police also seized footage showing Chan exposing himself in a classroom in 2017, as well as videos believed to be of Chan depicting a solo sex act. He also admitted to a campaign of voyeurism between 2011 and 2023.

Chan will now be sentenced on February 12 for all 52 crimes he has confessed to.

Following the Chan case earlier this month, it was revealed that nurseries may be required to install security cameras.

Education Minister Bridget Phillipson announced a review of local child safety practices in December. The aim of this review was to ‘learn every lesson we can to ensure that action is taken against such crimes at every step and at every stage’.

Ms Phillipson, who was pressed at the time to make CCTV mandatory in nurseries, said if the footage was misused it could lead to other forms of child abuse.

Appointed an expert advisory group to develop guidance for the industry on the safe and effective use of CCTV.

Education Secretary Olivia Bailey later appeared to go further, telling the House of Commons that the Government was ‘considering the mandatory use of CCTV in early years settings’ as part of the review.

This was in response to former Labor minister and Hampstead and Highgate MP Tulip Siddiq: ‘The Secretary of State will know about the horrific case of sexual abuse at one of my local nurseries.

‘So can I ask the Secretary of State, can he introduce mandatory CCTV in nurseries so we can use it as a protection tool?’

Speaking to questions about education, Ms Bailey said: ‘I thank (Ms Siddiq) for defending her constituents in an absolutely appalling case and my thoughts are with all the children and families affected.

‘The safety of our children comes first; ‘We are therefore considering the mandatory use of CCTV in early years settings through our rapidly launched review.’

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 an indecent photograph of a child and 6 counts of taking an indecent photograph or fake photograph of a child.