Nursery Paedophile Vincent Chan's Callous Silence During Police Interview
Paedophile nursery worker Vincent Chan was filmed callously refusing to answer police questions when detectives quizzed him about his horrific campaign of sexual abuse against young children. The video, released after Chan was jailed for 18 years, shows the cowardly offender avoiding eye contact and repeatedly stating "No comment" to detailed inquiries about his crimes.
Police Confrontation and Evasive Responses
Wearing a grey tracksuit with his hair in a ponytail, Chan sat hunched in his seat during the police interview, deliberately avoiding eye contact with the detective questioning him. The officer pressed him about placing hidden cameras throughout his home, including in bathrooms, living rooms, and bedrooms, to which Chan simply replied "No comment."
When asked why he had installed these surveillance devices, Chan looked down at his lap and rubbed his nose with his sleeve before again refusing to answer. The detective then detailed the horrific abuse Chan had filmed himself carrying out, asking how he felt about these videos. By this point, Chan was completely hunched in his seat with his head bowed, staring at his clasped hands on his lap.
Horrific Details of Widespread Abuse
The full extent of Chan's depravity emerged during his sentencing hearing at Wood Green Crown Court. Prosecutor Philip Stott revealed that Chan had taken covert videos of a teenage girl while spying on her getting changed in her own bedroom. He had also superimposed images of this girl onto naked pictures of himself, creating mock sexual acts and labeling one image with the word "jailbait."
Chan filmed the same girl and a friend in their school uniforms, with audio capturing him saying "You are so sexy." Over three years, he amassed approximately 2,000 images of this single victim alone. His abuse spanned victims from age two to over seventy, including multiple women filmed using the toilet without their knowledge and a pensioner recorded getting undressed in her own home.
Multiple Victims and Previous Offenses
While working at the Bright Horizons nursery in Finchley Road, West Hampstead, Chan molested girls aged two to four. He also admitted to taking upskirt videos of schoolgirls during his previous employment at a primary school. Additionally, Chan confessed to secretly filming women getting undressed and using the toilet, while amassing a vast online collection of indecent images of children.
Further disturbing revelations included Chan filming himself sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in bed and capturing a video of a naked girl in a swimming pool. His female solicitor read a pre-prepared statement during the police interview in which Chan stated: "I, Vincent Chan, hereby confirm that I am guilty of all of the things complained of in the disclosure document," yet he refused to provide any explanation or show remorse to his victims.
Legal Proceedings and Public Outrage
The release of the police interview footage has sparked public outrage, highlighting Chan's complete lack of remorse for what prosecutors described as "every parent's worst nightmare." Despite overwhelming evidence and his own admission of guilt, Chan maintained his silent, evasive posture throughout police questioning, offering no insight into his motivations or expressing any concern for his numerous victims.
This case has raised serious questions about safeguarding in educational settings and the mechanisms for detecting predators who gain access to vulnerable children. Chan's ability to offend across multiple institutions over an extended period has prompted calls for stricter vetting procedures and monitoring of staff working with children.
