Morgue monster David Fuller ‘to be charged with further offences’ as police ‘identify more victims’ of murderer who killed two women and raped corpses of more than 100 others
- Killer pleaded guilty to murders of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce last year
- Also admitted further 51 offences related to abusing at least 102 corpses
- Source said it was ‘always expected’ that more victims would be identified
David Fuller, the double murderer who sexually assaulted dozens of corpses in hospital mortuaries
Bedsit killer and depraved morgue monster David Fuller will reportedly be charged with further offences after more victims were identified.
The perverted killer, 67, pleaded guilty to the murders of Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, in November last year.
Fuller beat and strangled the women to death before sexually assaulting them in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987.
He also admitted a further 51 offences related to sexually abusing at least 102 victims in the mortuaries of Kent and Sussex and Tunbridge Wells hospitals over more than a decade.
His youngest victim was just nine, two were aged 16, and the oldest was 100. The identities of the remaining 20 victims may never be known.
According to The Sun, he could be charged with new offences this week. A source told the newspaper: ‘It was always expected that there would be more.
‘Detectives have worked tirelessly to identify victims and hope to get justice for their families.’
Fuller was sentenced to two whole life orders for the murders of Ms Knell and Ms Pierce at Maidstone Crown Court in December last year.
Wendy Knell (pictured) was beaten and strangled by Fuller before being sexually assaulted in in Tunbridge Wells, Kent
He was also given concurrent sentences totalling 12 years for the sexual abuse of the deceased females.
He joined Levi Bellfield – killer of Milly Dowler, Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange – as the only criminal in UK legal history to be serving two whole life orders.
In her sentencing remarks, the judge said Fuller ‘became a vulture, picking victims from among the dead,’ adding ‘the depravity of what you did reveals your conscience is seared.’
Fuller filmed himself carrying out the attacks inside the hospitals, where he worked in electrical maintenance roles.
He stored records of his serial sex offending on computer folders with titles including ‘Necro Lord’, ‘Register’, ‘Deadly’, ‘Deadliest’ and ‘Best Yet’.
Azra Kemal (pictured) was ‘violated’ at least three times while in the morgue at Tunbridge Wells Hospital
The folders contained names, numbers and dates, as well as images of a mortuary logbook used to create his own record of those he defiled.
While there was no CCTV in the area of the mortuary where the sexual abuse took place, Fuller was found to have researched many of his victims after the attacks via Facebook.
The sentencing hearing heard impact statements from a string of the victims’ family members.
After taking the lives of two young women in their prime, Fuller went on to commit further crimes of almost unimaginable evil – raping and sexually molesting the bodies of at least 100 women and girls in mortuaries to which he had access as a hospital electrician
Fuller’s staff card showed his role as a ‘Technical Supervisor’ at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust
The mother of Fuller’s youngest victim, a nine-year-old girl, addressed him directly, saying: ‘David, you know who I am because you read the letter I wrote to my baby.’
She added: ‘You raped my baby. She couldn’t say no to the dirty 66-year-old man who was abusing her body. I feel guilty I left her there. I will not enjoy my life again. This unnatural sick pain I will never get over.’
The widower of another woman told him: ‘David, when you are serving your time behind bars, think carefully about what you have done and thank your lucky stars that I’m not sharing a cell with you.’
Morgue rapist David Fuller: A timeline of the heinous offences
1973: Fuller grew up in a terraced house in Angerstein Road, Portsmouth, and was living at the address when he was convicted of 26 counts of burglary.
June 23, 1987: Ms Knell is found dead in her apartment in Guildford Road on by her boyfriend. The bed, duvet and pillows were bloodstained, and her bloodstained head was resting on a towel. Police could find no signs of forced entry, and neighbours heard nothing through the flat’s thin walls.
November 24, 1987: Ms Pierce, manager at a popular restaurant, is murdered by Fuller. However, it is not until three weeks later that her body – naked apart from a pair of tights – is found in a water-filled dyke of a remote field on Romney Marsh in Kent.
January 1989: Fuller begins working as an electrical maintenance craftsman at Kent and Sussex and Tunbridge Wells hospitals.
2008: The first evidence of Fuller having filmed and photographed himself sexually abusing the bodies of dozens of women at the mortuaries.
2012: Kent Police reveals it has a full DNA profile of their prime suspect for the murders of Ms Knell and Ms Pierce.
2015: Fuller has to undergo a criminal record check for the first time in the wake of revelations Jimmy Savile sexually assaulted patients. It emerges he had convictions for burglaries in the 1970s that he is understood to have previously lied about.
December 2020: Fuller is identified as the prime suspect in the murders after a DNA breakthrough achieved by analysing genetic material found at the crime scenes and searching criminal databases for relatives. Officers arrest him at his home in Heathfield, East Sussex, where he lived with his family, in the early hours of December 3.
January 2021: Fuller admits responsibility for both killings at Maidstone Crown Court, but his barrister says he will deny murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He is later charged with additional offences relating to the sexual abuse of more than 100 victims.
November 4, 2021: After his trial gets underway, Fuller changes his plea to guilty. He also admits a further 51 offences related to sexually abusing at least 102 victims, of which 82 have been identified, in the mortuaries over more than a decade.
December 15, 2021: Fuller appears for sentencing at Maidstone Crown Court.
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