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Man pleads guilty to sexual offences against six women in south London
The Guardian
|August 30, 2025
A businessman who concealed cameras in his home and drugged women has pleaded guilty to a string of sexual offences, with police fearing the scale of his offending may be "vast".
Chao Xu, 33, pleaded guilty yesterday at a pre-trial hearing to 24 offences against six young women in London over three years, including rape, digital penetration, sexual assault, administering a substance with intent, and voyeurism.
He was arrested in June and police said that searches of his phone found "hundreds of intimate images and videos of women". The key evidence was his filming of his own offending, with police recovering the videos when he was arrested.
The Metropolitan police fear there could be scores more victims and hidden cameras were found in multiple areas of his home, including inside an air freshener and in bathrooms.
All of his victims are believed to be of Chinese heritage and the offences he has been convicted of took place in the UK, with police fearing his offending could go back years.
This story is from the August 30, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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