decades later sexually abusing at least 100 corpses in hospital mortuaries. for more than 30 years, david fuller was a maintenance worker at the kent and sussex hospital and then the tunbridge wells hospital until police finally tracked him down last december thanks to advances in dna testing. police have contacted the families of many of the victims assaulted between 2008 and 2020 but detectives say they may never know the full extent of his crimes. this report from our home affairs correspondent tom symonds contains disturbing details. morning. it s the police. hello. after 33 years, he almost seemed to be expecting it. all right, david. you are under arrest on the suspicion of the murders of wendy knell and caroline pierce in 1987. do you understand 7 yeah. david fuller, mr normal at least, on the outside. wendy knell and caroline pierce.
he s killed them and evidence is indicating that he s killed i them to then sexually abuse them. after death? after death. and that s the evidence that s been presented in court. - and so. horrific murders. these young ladies, i 25 and 20, brutalised for his sexual satisfaction. the search continued. it looks like he s got some hard drives in there, i would say. but they re stuck to the back. and these hidden hard drives contain devastating evidence. fuller, a hospital maintenance man in two hospital mortuaries, carrying out sexual acts with dead bodies. he d set up a camcorder and videoed himself. his swipe card gave him access to all areas. we can now report for the first time that at the kent and sussex hospital and its successor, the tunbridge wells hospital, at least 100 dead women were abused. they include children
drives in there, i would say. but they re stuck to the back. and these hidden hard drives contain devastating evidence. fuller, a hospital maintenance man in two hospital mortuaries, carrying out sexual acts with dead bodies. he had set up a camcorder and videoed himself. his swipe card gave him access to all areas. we can now report for the first time that at the kent and sussex hospital and its successor, the tunbridge wells hospital, at least 100 dead women were abused. they include a nine year old and a 100 year old woman. fuller recorded some of their names in a little black book. but said practically nothing to police. is there anything you would like to add or clarify at this point, david? no. leaving them to identify more than 78 victims from details in his videos. 78 and counting.
for more than 30 years david fuller was a maintenance worker at the kent and sussex hospital and then the tunbridge wells hospital until police finally tracked him down last december thanks to advances in dna testing. police have contacted the families of many of the victims assaulted between 2008 and 2020 but detectives say they may never know the full extent of his crimes. this report from our home affairs correspondent tom symonds contains disturbing details. morning. it s the police. hello. after 33 years, he almost seemed to be expecting it. all right, david. you are under arrest on the suspicion of the murders of wendy knell and caroline pierce in 1987. do you understand ? yeah. david fuller, mr normal at least, on the outside. wendy knell and caroline pierce. independent young women in a quiet town in the 1980s.
a court has been told that a man who admitted killing two women in 1987 also abused female corpses in two hospital morgues. 67 year old david fuller has admitted killing wendy knell and caroline pierce, in kent, more than 30 years ago. but he denies murder, on the grounds of diminished responsibility. the court heard that the sexual offences took place in the mortuaries of the kent and sussex hospital and the tunbridge wells hospital in pembury, which replaced it. our home affairs correspondent tom symonds explains. wendy knell and caroline pierce were young women who lived in bedsits in tunbridge wells in the 1980s. and this case has taken more than 30 years to come to court. david fuller is accused of murdering both of them. wendy knell s body was found in her bedsit. caroline pierce s body was found in a drainage ditch in romney marsh,