The electrician was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and recorded himself abusing their bodies.
According to authorities, a hospital employee who murdered two people and tortured corpses in mortuaries has been charged with 16 further sexual offenses.
David Fuller was sentenced to life in prison for the 1987 slayings of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Before his arrest in December 2020, the electrician recorded himself molesting corpses, including a nine-year-old girl and a 100-year-old lady, in hospital morgues for 12 years.
Kent Police stated that Fuller, 67, admitted to committing sexual offenses against 78 deceased ladies in mortuaries in Tunbridge Wells Hospital and the former Kent and Sussex Hospital between 2008 and 2020.
After an investigation uncovered evidence of 101 victims at the mortuaries, Kent Police said that Fuller has been charged with further crimes related to the other 23 victims.
Thirteen of the remaining 23 victims, all of whom were adult women, have been formally recognized, but police have been unable to determine the identities of the remaining ten, the force claimed.
Fuller will appear before the Medway Magistrates’ Court via video connection on Thursday.
He must:
• 10 allegations under section 70 of the Sexual Offences Act of 2003 These involve crimes involving ten identified victims.
• Two additional counts under section 70 of the Sexual Offenses Act of 2003. These involve crimes committed against three unidentified victims.
• Two violations of section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008 These charges pertain to the possession of severe pornographic material about thirteen identified victims.
• Two further indictments under section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act of 2008 These charges pertain to the possession of severe pornographic material about ten unidentified victims.
Sir Jonathan Michael will lead an independent investigation into Fuller’s crimes.
The first phase of the investigation will focus on the necrophiliac’s activities in the hospitals where he worked, while the second phase will examine the repercussions of his actions on the nation as a whole.
Fuller has admitted to abusing around eighty corpses, but police suspect there are many more victims, and scores of individuals have phoned a helpline since the terrible revelations were revealed.
Since 1989, he has held electrical maintenance positions at the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury, where he filmed himself carrying out the attacks.
After his imprisonment, his wife Mala, with whom he had resided in Heathfield, East Sussex, for twenty years, left him.
The murders of 25-year-old Ms. Knell and 20-year-old Ms. Pierce, known as the “bedsit murders,” were unsolved for more than three decades before the identification of Fuller as the perpetrator by modern DNA tests.
After their deaths, he also sexually molested the two murder victims.
Fuller, who has a son and a daughter, first accepted the hospital attacks but denied both murders; however, on the sixth day of his trial at Maidstone Crown Court, he pled guilty to the crimes.
In addition, he pled guilty to 51 additional offenses, including 44 accusations involving 78 victims in mortuaries between 2008 and November 2020.
Included were the sexual penetration of a body, possession of an extreme pornographic image including sexual involvement with a corpse, and the taking of indecent photographs of youngsters.
Fuller received a life sentence for the killings and a 12-year sentence for his previous offenses.
During sentencing, Judge Mrs. Justice Cheema-Grubb QC stated to Fuller, “You became a vulture, choosing your victims from among the dead in the hidden realm of hospital mortuaries, which you were free to inhabit because you possessed a swipe card.”
Fuller, an avid amateur photographer, had photographed and recorded himself doing sex activities and cataloged the photographs in what one detective termed his “debauchery diary.”
Since he had worked at Tunbridge Wells Hospital – and its predecessor, the Kent, and Sussex Hospital – since 1989, detectives think he may have abused hundreds of other victims.
Kent Police had to recruit more than 300 family liaison officers from more than half of the United Kingdom’s forces to inform the deceased’s, family members.
