Aug 29: 
national Chao Xu, a former University of Greenwich post-graduate student who until recently ran a recruitment business + a calculated serial predator who drugged women and recorded his attacks on cameras hidden in an air freshener and a bathroom in his home, pleaded guilty to 24 offences against women — 4 counts of rape, 8 counts of assault by penetration and 4 counts of sexual assault against 6 women, including 3 victims who have not yet been identified, between Nov 21 2021 and June 1 2025; 2 counts of administering a substance to incapacitate his victims and 4 counts of voyeurism against 6 more women who have also not yet been identified between Apr 2023 and June 2025; and 2 further upskirting charges of operating equipment beneath the clothing of another without their consent on Dec 2 2022 and Sep 6 2023.
The voyeurism and upskirting offences took place at his £700,000 apartment in Stretton Mansions, Glaisher Street, Greenwich, at his office in Newington Causeway, Southwark and at London Bridge tube station.
Xu has lived in the UK since around 2013.
Xu is being remanded in custody and will be sentenced on Oct 14 at Woolwich Crown Court.
video: arrest of Chao Xu in June
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/2
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/
national Chao Xu, a former University of Greenwich post-graduate student who until recently ran a recruitment business + a calculated serial predator who drugged women and recorded his attacks on cameras hidden in an air freshener and a bathroom in his home, pleaded guilty to 24 offences against women — 4 counts of rape, 8 counts of assault by penetration and 4 counts of sexual assault against 6 women, including 3 victims who have not yet been identified, between Nov 21 2021 and June 1 2025; 2 counts of administering a substance to incapacitate his victims and 4 counts of voyeurism against 6 more women who have also not yet been identified between Apr 2023 and June 2025; and 2 further upskirting charges of operating equipment beneath the clothing of another without their consent on Dec 2 2022 and Sep 6 2023.
The voyeurism and upskirting offences took place at his £700,000 apartment in Stretton Mansions, Glaisher Street, Greenwich, at his office in Newington Causeway, Southwark and at London Bridge tube station.
Xu has lived in the UK since around 2013.
Xu is being remanded in custody and will be sentenced on Oct 14 at Woolwich Crown Court.
video: arrest of Chao Xu in June
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/2
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/
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