UK nursery worker Vincent Chan jailed for sexually abusing children

A UK childcare worker who filmed himself sexually abusing youngsters at a nursery where he worked and downloaded over 26,000 indecent images of children was on Thursday jailed for 18 years.Vincent Chan, 45, who admitted a raft of 56 charges including sexual assault, was described in court as “every parent’s worst nightmare”.Passing sentence, Judge John Dodd told him he was guilty of an “utterly wicked, perverse and depraved” campaign of sexual abuse.“You became a sexual predator and someone who had clearly lost all sense of moral compass,” he said, adding Chan’s victims had been “too young to alert anyone as to what you were doing, they were defenceless”.Chan’s victims included four girls aged three and four whom he molested between 2022 and 2024 during naptime at the north London nursery.UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits a community centre in Hertfordshire, Britain, on Tuesday. Photo: ReutersChan, dressed in a prison-issue grey tracksuit and flanked by three guards, showed no emotion as he was sentenced at a court in north London.