Serial Corpses Rapist Bags Life Imprisonment

David Fuller, a serial corpses rapist will never be released from prison.

Gatekeepers News reports that a double murderer who sexually abused more than 100 female corpses has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

The sixty-seven-year-old killed Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells in 1987.

Fuller also abused corpses, including children, in two Kent morgues for over 12 years while working as a hospital electrician.

Families of the victims described him as “an animal”, and “despicable, sick and twisted”.

Justice Cheema-Grubb of Maidstone Crown Court told Fuller during 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.”

He was handed two whole life sentences for the murders with a concurrent 12-year term for his other crimes.

Pierce continued, “I can never forget having to identify the badly-damaged body of my own daughter. The images of seeing my daughter in that way, repeat over and over in my mind.

“She must have been absolutely terrified.”

Health Secretary Sajid Javid earlier announced an independent inquiry in the wake of the case, to understand how Fuller was able to operate undetected by the hospital trust and to look at the “national implications” of his offences.

Footage in which Fuller recorded himself abusing corpses in the morgues was found in his house after his arrest for the murders in 2020.

Fuller had labelled the footage with the names of the victims, images, and videos of him molesting female bodies, including three children, between 2008 and November 2020.

He worked in electrical maintenance at hospitals since 1989 and was at the Kent and Sussex Hospital until it closed in September 2011.

Following his transfer to the Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury, Fuller continued the offences until his arrest.

Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said Fuller “systematically and repeatedly sexually abused” the bodies of at least 102 dead women and girls.

Atkinson said they included a nine-year-old girl, two 16-year-olds, and a woman aged 100.