17:04 GMT
Amy Clarke
BBC London News
Sentencing has now concluded for Vincent Chan, and we’ve
heard significant reaction, including from families of his victims who are pursuing legal action against the nursery.
Today’s hearing marked the end of a lengthy investigation
and a case that has raised profound questions about safeguarding in early years
settings.
At Wood Green Crown Court Judge John Dodd KC jailed Chan for 18 years, along with a further eight years on extended licence, for what he described as an “utterly
wicked, perverse, and depraved” campaign of abuse spanning 15 years.
The 45‑year‑old targeted children as young as
two years old while they were sleeping in his care at the Bright Horizons
nursery on Finchley Road, West Hampstead.
A police investigation also revealed that Chan had taken
upskirt videos of girls in class while working as a teaching assistant at a
primary school in Barnet as well as amassing a collection of at least 26,000 indecent, including clips of youngsters being raped.
Making his sentencing remarks, Judge Dodd told him: “Every right thinking
person hearing about your offending would feel revulsion and disbelief.
“You became a sexual predator and someone who clearly lost
all sense of moral compass.”