David Fuller: Killer hospital worker who abused bodies in morgues charged with 16 more sex offences | UK News
A hospital worker who murdered two women and abused corpses to dispose of them has been charged with 16 more sex crimes, police said.
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David Fuller was awarded a life sentence last year about the murders of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987.
The electrician also filmed himself abusing corpses, including a nine-year-old girl and a 100-year-old woman, in the hospital morgue more than 12 years before his arrest in December 2020.
Kent Police said Fuller67, has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting 78 women who died in burial pits at Tunbridge Wells Hospital and at the former Kent and Sussex Hospital between 2008 and 2020.
After an investigation resulted in evidence of 101 victims in the murders, Fuller was charged with additional charges related to the remaining 23 victims, Kent Police said.
Thirteen of the other 23 victims – all adult women – have been officially identified but police have yet to identify the remaining 10 women, the force added.
Fuller will appear via video link before Medway Magistrates Court on Thursday.
He is faced with:
• 10 counts under section 70 of the Sex Crimes Act 2003. These charges relate to crimes involving 10 identified victims.
• Two other offenses under section 70 of the Sexual Offenses Act 2003. These charges relate to crimes involving three unidentified victims.
• Two charges under section 63 of the Immigration and Criminal Justice Act 2008. These allegations involve possession of extreme pornography involving 13 victims have been identified.
• Two other charges under section 63 of the Immigration and Criminal Justice Act 2008. These charges involve possession of extreme pornography involving 10 unidentified victims.
Read more: How David Fuller was caught – and how he got away with his crimes all this time
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David Fuller: The Murderer and the Morgue
One independent investigationled by Sir Jonathan Michael, is set to take place in Fuller’s crimes.
The first phase will focus on the gangrene’s activities in the hospitals he has worked in, while the second will look at the impacts of his activities on the country. Generally speaking.
Fuller has admitted to abusing nearly 80 corpses, but police believe there are many more victims and Dozens of people have contacted the helpline since shocking details surfaced.
He filmed himself carrying out the attacks inside the now closed Kent and Sussex Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital, in Pembury, where he has worked in an electrical maintenance role since 1989.
His wife, Mala, who has lived with Fuller for 20 years in Heathfield, East Sussex, leave him after being caught.
The murders of 25-year-old Miss Knell and 20-year-old Pierce – known as the “bed murders” – remained unsolved for more than three decades until advanced DNA techniques identified Fuller as the killer. killing.
He also sexually abused two murder victims after their deaths.
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Wendy Knell was murdered by Fuller in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 1987
Caroline Pierce was also murdered by Fuller
Fuller, who has a son and daughter, initially admitted to the hospital attacks and denied both murders – but he pleaded guilty to the murders on Friday of his trial. trial at Maidstone Crown Court.
He also pleaded guilty to 51 other counts, including 44 counts involving 78 victims in the murders between 2008 and November 2020.
These include sexual penetration of a corpse, possession of extreme pornography involving sexual interference with a corpse, and indecent photography of children.
Fuller was sentenced to life in prison for the murders with a term of 12 years concurrently for his other crimes.
Fuller admits to two murders during his trial
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The moment David Fuller was arrested
During sentencing, Judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb QC told Fuller: “You have become a vulture, choosing your victims from among the dead from the hidden world of hospital supplies, where you’re free to live just because you have a swipe card.”
Fuller, a keen amateur videographer, photographed and filmed himself performing sexual acts and listed the images in what one detective called his “debauchery diary”. .
He began documenting his heinous crimes in 2008, but has worked at Tunbridge Wells Hospital – and its predecessor Kent and Sussex Hospital – since 1989, so detectives fear that he could have attacked hundreds more bodies.
Kent Police deployed more than 300 family liaison officers from more than half of the UK’s force to keep loved ones informed.
