A hospital electrician serving a life sentence in Britain for killing two women and sexually abusing corpses in morgues has admitted to contaminating 23 other dead women.
David Fuller, 68, had previously admitted to strangling Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, months apart in Kent, south-east England, in 1987.
He also pleaded guilty to 51 other crimes related to 78 death victims between 2008 and 2020.
At a hearing at Croydon Crown Court, Fuller admitted sexually abusing a further 23 women who died in hospital morgues, including 12 counts of sexual penetration of a corpse, bringing the total number of deaths to 101.
Attorney Michael Bisgrove said statements from the victims’ families have been prepared for when Fuller is sentenced next month.
“There are many family members of the victims who would like to attend court in one way or another, some of whom who would wish to read their victim personal statements to the court,” he added, reports RTE.
Convicting him of murder last year, Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said Fuller appeared to be living a “normal, peaceful life” but “in seclusion … committed acts of the deepest darkness”, reports RTE.
Having killed two young women who were full of the promise of life you became a vulture, picking your victims from among the dead, within the hidden world of hospital mortuaries which you were left free to inhabit, simply because you had a swipe card,” she added, reports RTE.
The policemen who ransacked his house found that he had filmed himself attacking the two morgues where he had worked in electrical maintenance since 1989.
The offenses include sexual penetration of a corpse, possession of an extreme pornographic image involving sexual interference with a corpse, and the taking of indecent images of children.
The evidence found dates back to 2008, when digital camera devices were becoming more prevalent, but police believe the full extent of Fuller’s crimes may never be known.
Health secretary at the time, Sajid Javid, called Fuller’s crimes “deeply distressing” and promised steps would be taken to “ensure nothing like this ever happens again”, reports RTE.
The government announced an independent investigation into how Fuller’s crimes went unreported for so long.
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