The Nursery Paedophile

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Depraved, perverted and wicked - the words used to describe Vincent Chan as he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for abusing the children he was caring for. In this episode Caroline and Ryan have the details of how he used his job working in a nursery and in a school in London to prey on defenceless toddlers and children. He sexually assaulted them and he filmed it - storing the videos and images in files at his home. He also targeted other children and adults too - using a secret camera to record his female friends when they used the bathroom in his home, and he filmed complete strangers through their windows as they undressed. His crimes have devastated hundreds of people who are asking if he could have been stopped earlier.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the trial UK. I'm Caroline Cheatham. And I'm Ryan Hooper. Today on the podcast, we've got the deeply disturbing story of Vincent Chan, a man who used his position as a nursery worker and teaching assistant to prey on toddlers and children for over a decade.
0:24.3	Vincent Chan's sexually abused children as young as two who were in his care at a nursery in London.
0:29.7	He also created indecent images of children, superimposing their faces onto pornographic pictures and videos.
0:38.1	He spied on his friends and on strangers.
0:40.7	One of them was a woman in her 70s,
0:43.0	who he filmed from a distance as she got undressed in her bedroom,
0:46.3	and he even secretly video people who were using the toilet in his house.
0:50.1	He installed cameras under the desks of schoolchildren
0:53.5	so he could take in decent pictures of them.
0:56.5	And tens of thousands of images downloaded from the deep recesses of the internet were found on his computers.
1:03.0	Today, as he starts an 18-year prison sentence, his victims are still coming to terms with the scale of his depravity and asking if he could have been stopped sooner.
1:15.2	Now, today, before we begin the episode, we should say some of the details will be explaining are distressing.
1:22.1	So please don't listen if you have small children around.
1:26.5	Welcome to the nursery peterfall.
1:29.2	We'll be back after this.
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2:02.7	So we're still going to be bringing you the same extensive coverage of some of the biggest trials across the UK.
2:07.2	In fact, this year is a particularly busy year for some significant cases.
2:13.3	So as ever, we'll be bringing you all of the details on the podcast from courts up and down the country.
2:19.2	But whereas before they gave us a little bit of a break between trials, we're no longer doing that.
2:26.1	We know that you like content every single week. So that means when we're not covering a big trial, we're still going to be here every single Friday to talk about important cases or significant
2:32.0	police, courts or legal issues. And then once we get back
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