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A necrophilic double murderer has admitted to sexually assaulting 23 dead women in hospital morgues.
David Fuller, 68, pleaded guilty in Croydon Crown Court on Thursday to 12 counts of sexually penetrating a corpse and four counts of possession of extreme pornography between 2007 and 2020.
The former Tunbridge Wells Hospital electrician, who is already serving a life sentence for killing two women and sexually abusing 78 female corpses, appeared in court earlier this year to face 16 new sexual charges.
Fuller had access to all parts of the hospital and could carry out his wicked crimes.
Kent Police said an investigation had led to evidence relating to a total of 101 victims and the latest charges relate to the 23 remaining victims, all of whom were dead adult women – 10 have not been identified.
The retiree was jailed for beating and strangling Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, to death before sexually assaulting them in two separate assaults in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987.
He also filmed abusing corpses, including a nine-year-old girl, two 16-year-olds and a 100-year-old woman, more than 12 years before his arrest in December 2020.
Double murderer David Fuller, 68, has pleaded guilty to Croydon Crown Court for 16 sex offenses involving 23 dead women in morgues between 2007 and 2020
The necrophile, who is serving a life sentence for killing two women and sexually abusing 102 female corpses, appeared in court earlier this year to face 16 new sexual charges.
Fuller was given two life sentences in December 2021 after pleading guilty to the murders at Maidstone Crown Court, as well as 51 other offences, including 44 charges related to 78 victims in morgues between 2008 and November 2020.
His crimes first came to light after he was linked to one of the longest unsolved double murders in Britain more than 30 years ago.
During the investigation, Fuller was linked to the cold cases by a DNA breakthrough that then led police to his stash of nauseating recordings of abusing corpses.
Azra Kemal, 24, was one of Fuller’s victims. Hospital’s twisted electrician sneaked into the morgue of Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Kent three times to sexually abuse her body
Fuller, 67, admitted to murdering Wendy Knell, 25, (left) and Caroline Pierce, 20, (right) in 1987 in what became known as the ‘Bedsit Murders’ – one of the longest unsolved murder cases in Britain
The investigation into Fuller’s crimes was announced last November
He will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of two murders and sexual abuse of bodies – both at Tunbridge Wells and the former Kent and Sussex Hospital.
Fuller, as an electrician at Tunbridge Wells Hospital, had access to all parts of the hospital and could carry out his wicked crimes
The investigation into Fuller’s crimes was announced last November by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
It has worked with the families of the more than 100 dead female victims.
The investigation is set to publish its “phase 1” report by the end of this year. It examines how Fuller was able to carry out his crimes on corpses and “why they went undetected.”
But this first report will now only be published ‘the first half of next year’.
A statement from the investigation said: “The amount of evidence the investigation has and continues to receive, and the number of witnesses to be questioned, is much greater than expected.
“The investigation will therefore take longer than originally planned to ensure that all evidence is thoroughly considered and analysed. Sir Jonathan Michael and his team are committed to thorough work and will balance that with working at a pace.
“This means the first report of the inquiry into matters involving Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust will now be published in the first half of 2023.”
The additional charges against Fuller are not expected to “change the timeline of our work at this time.”