about 40 miles away. now david fuller, as i said, is accused of murdering them, but he has admitted killing both young women. he has said that he did so because he was suffering from a mental condition, which amounted to him not being responsible for what he was doing, an argument of diminished responsibility. opening the case this morning, the prosecutor said there was a different and clear explanation for the defendant s behaviour he said that mr fuller had a desire for sexual gratification through the observation and identification of vulnerable women. gaining control of them and then indulging his depraved sexual predilections in relation to them. he said that that behaviour linked him with caroline and wendy s deaths. we also heard, in evidence that the jury was told would be difficult for them to hear during this trial, that david fuller
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,
worked at two hospitals, the kent and sussex and the tunbridge wells hospital at pembrey, which replaced it. he had access to the mortuary. the jury was told that david fuller had sexually abused the dead bodies of women being stored in the mortuary. also, in other submissions to the jury, the prosecution said that there was strong dna evidence linking david fuller with both with both wendy s death and caroline s death, and a fingerprint in blood which matched david. we just wejust had a we just had a statement from the two train companies involved in network rail, just worth giving you a few