It was the headline that made every parent’s blood run cold. In February, nursery worker Vincent Chan admitted 56 charges including sexual assault by penetration and possession of indecent images of the children in his care at the West Hampstead branch of the American multi-national childcare provider Bright Horizons.
The offences had been filmed over the course of seven years, adding to Chan’s collection of at least 26,000 indecent images, which included clips of children being raped. It was, according to the Metropolitan Police, “one of the most harrowing and complex child sexual abuse investigations” it has ever taken on.
