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THU · 2026-01-29 · 15:19 GMTBRIEF NSR-2026-0129-11662
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Paedophile nursery worker admits 26 new offences including upskirting of girls

Vincent Chan, a 45-year-old former nursery worker at Bright Horizons in West Hampstead, London, has pleaded guilty to 26 new offences related to child abuse. The charges, heard at Highbury Corner magistrates court, include taking indecent photographs of children, outraging public decency, sexual assault, and voyeurism.

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Paedophile nursery worker admits 26 new offences including upskirting of girls
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Vincent Chan, a 45-year-old former nursery worker at Bright Horizons in West Hampstead, London, has pleaded guilty to 26 new offences related to child abuse. The charges, heard at Highbury Corner magistrates court, include taking indecent photographs of children, outraging public decency, sexual assault, and voyeurism. Chan filmed himself abusing children, aged three and four, during naptime and also filmed up the skirts of girls in a classroom. Police discovered images of Chan exposing himself in a classroom in 2017, as well as videos of a solo sex act and evidence of voyeurism dating back to 2011. Chan, who has admitted to a total of 52 offences, will be sentenced on February 12th.

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Police recovered images showing Chan exposing himself in a classroom in 2017.

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

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Chan pleaded guilty to 10 counts of taking indecent photographs of children.

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Chan is facing years behind bars for molesting girls aged three and four.

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Vincent Chan admitted to 26 new offences including filming up the skirts of girls.

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A paedophile nursery worker has admitted a series of new charges including filming up the skirts of girls as they sat in a classroom.Vincent Chan, 45, is facing years behind bars for molesting girls aged three and four while working at Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead, north London.Chan filmed himself carrying out the abuse, during naptime at the nursery, and also confessed to downloading thousands of indecent images 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.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 12 February for all 52 offences he has admitted.
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