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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Sirin Kale

Camden council was warned about paedophile nursery worker years before arrest

Vincent Chan.
Chan, who was jailed for 18 years in February, was described by prosecutors as a ‘prolific sexual predator’. Photograph: Metropolitan police/AFP/Getty Images

A paedophile nursery worker was cleared by an investigation overseen by a local authority three years before he was arrested.

In February, Vincent Chan was jailed after pleading guilty to 56 offences, including assault by penetration on three-year-old girls in his care at a Bright Horizons nursery on Finchley Road in north-west London. After his conviction, prosecutors described him as a “prolific sexual predator”.

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