Double murderer who sexually abused over 100 corpses given whole life sentence

Danny Jones

His crimes date back to 1987

David Fuller, the electrician who was found to have abused over 100 corpses including children, has been sentenced to life in prison.

As reported by the BBC, the double murderer who was found to have abused more than 100 corpses while working in two Kent morgues over the past 12 years, was given a whole-life jail term on Wednesday, December 15th.

Mortuary abuse killer David Fuller was an animal, court told https://t.co/05WIkjDgre

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 15, 2021

A full inquiry was launched into the 67-year-old’s crime last month after he admitted to sexually assaulting and killing two women, Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce, in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells back 1987.

Beyond these killings, he is said to have abused 102 corpses, including that of children, during his time as an electrician at multiple medical facilities. The families of the victims told Maidstone Crown Court that he was “an animal”, calling him “despicable, sick and twisted”.

Justice Cheema-Grubb told Fuller during his sentencing: “There is so much sorrow in this community because of what you have done. Your actions go against everything that is right and humane. They are incomprehensible. You had no regard for the dignity of the dead.”

While Health Secretary Sajid Javid‘s inquiry is set to look into how Fuller was allowed to carry out these heinous attacks and abuses for so long without being detected, Katrina Frost – mother of his second murder victim, Ms Pierce – was incensed that he “returned to a normal life with his family” after such a “truly horrific part” of her life.

She is one of many victim’s family members who have spoken out following the case:

He told me his mum was a much loved grandmother, “the kindest person you could ever hope to meet”, a devout Catholic who would do a good turn for anyone, who hated cruelty to children and animals and who worked hard as a cleaner for many years.

— Amanda Akass (@amandaakass) December 13, 2021

Fuller worked in electrical maintenance at numerous hospitals from 1989 onwards and was at the Kent and Sussex Hospital before it closed in September 2011.

He was then transferred to the Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury, where he continued to carry out these crimes until he was finally arrested for the 1987 murders in 2020.

Officers carrying out a search of his house in Heathfield, East Sussex, found numerous pieces of images and even footage that he had taken, recording himself abusing corpses in the morgues.