A former nursery worker, Vincent Chan, received an 18-year prison sentence for sexually abusing young children, including girls as young as two. Newly released police interview footage captures Chan repeatedly responding with “No comment” when questioned about his horrific acts, which he filmed himself.
Details from the Police Interview
During the interview, Chan sat hunched in a grey tracksuit, ponytail tied back, and avoided eye contact with the detective. The officer pressed him on installing cameras in his bathroom, living room, and bedroom to record the abuse.
“Why did you place cameras in your house?” the detective asked. Chan stared at his lap, rubbed his nose, and replied, “No comment.”
After reviewing the disturbing videos, the detective inquired, “How do you feel about the videos I’ve told you so far? Do you recall those videos?” Each time, the greying suspect, head bowed and hands clasped, muttered, “No comment.”
Chan’s solicitor presented a prepared statement earlier, in which he confirmed: “I, Vincent Chan, hereby confirm that I am guilty of all of the things complained of in the disclosure document.” The detective responded, “I still have questions of course, and rightly so, because as police we want to understand what has happened and why it has happened.”
Scope of the Crimes
Chan targeted victims at Bright Horizons nursery in Finchley Road, West Hampstead, where he molested girls aged two to four. Police uncovered a pattern of covert recording spanning years.
Investigators recovered videos of women and girls undressing in their homes, including a teenage girl changing from a towel to half-naked, captured over three years in about 2,000 images. Chan superimposed her image onto naked photos of himself, labeling one “jailbait,” and filmed her and a friend in school uniforms, adding a voiceover: “You are so sexy.” Other footage showed a girl naked in a pool.
His offenses extended beyond the nursery. In a prior role at a primary school, Chan took upskirt videos of schoolgirls. He also secretly recorded women using the toilet, an unconscious woman during sexual assault, and a pensioner undressing. Officers seized a large online collection of indecent child images.
Court Revelations
At Wood Green Crown Court, prosecutor Philip Stott detailed the victims’ range: “They are children as young as two years old, through to adults in middle age and at the other end of the spectrum an adult in her 70s, recorded getting changed in her own home.”
The case highlights the extensive covert surveillance and sexual exploitation Chan inflicted on women and girls across multiple settings.
