Former nursery worker pleads guilty to 30 additional child sexual offences at Magistrates’ Court
A former nursery worker has admitted committing a further series of serious sexual offences involving children, after pleading guilty to 30 charges at Highbury Magistrates’ Court.
Vincent Chan, 45, from Finchley in north London, entered guilty pleas to the offences on 29 January 2026. The charges were authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service and relate to a range of child sexual offences uncovered during the ongoing investigation.
The offences include 12 counts of taking indecent images of children and six counts of committing acts outraging public decency. The indecent image charges cover a total of 31 still images and 13 moving images. Of the still images, 15 fall into category A, the most serious classification, depicting extreme sexual abuse of children.
The remaining indecent images fall into categories B and C. Category B images depict non-penetrative sexual activity, while category C images involve other indecent representations of children. The offences span several years and multiple time periods, with some dating back more than a decade.
In addition to the indecent image offences, Chan pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault relating to an incident in July 2011, as well as 11 counts of voyeurism committed on various dates. The six counts of outraging public decency relate to incidents occurring across different occasions.
These admissions follow an earlier appearance in December 2025, when Chan pleaded guilty to 26 charges connected to other child sexual offences. Taken together, the guilty pleas mean he now stands convicted of a substantial number of offences involving the sexual exploitation and abuse of children.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the fact that Chan worked in a childcare setting was a significant aggravating factor. Prosecutors highlighted that he had been in a position of trust, which made his offending particularly serious.
Helen Reddy, a specialist prosecutor with the CPS, said the guilty pleas meant victims had been spared the ordeal of giving evidence at trial. She added that the prosecution and police had worked together to bring all the offending to light.
Chan is due to be sentenced on Thursday 12 February at Wood Green Crown Court, where the court will consider all of the offences together when determining the appropriate sentence. He remains in custody ahead of that hearing.
The case forms part of the CPS’s wider work to prosecute sexual offences against children and to pursue robust sentences where abuse of trust is involved.