David Fuller: Double murderer pleads guilty to mortuary sexual abuse

A erstwhile infirmary mortuary idiosyncratic has pleaded blameworthy to abusing the bodies of 23 women implicit a 13-year period.

David Fuller, antecedently from Heathfield successful East Sussex, appeared astatine Croydon Crown Court connected Thursday.

The 68-year-old admitted 12 counts of intersexual penetration of a corpse and 4 counts of possession of utmost pornography betwixt 2007 and 2020.

Fuller received 2 whole-life tariffs successful December 2021 aft murdering Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce successful 1987.

He bushed and strangled the 2 women to decease earlier sexually assaulting them successful 2 abstracted attacks successful Tunbridge Wells, Kent, his earlier proceedings was told.

He was besides fixed concurrent sentences of 12 years aft pleading blameworthy to intersexual offences against 78 dormant women and girls betwixt 2008 and 2020.

Fuller has pleaded blameworthy astatine Croydon Crown Court to:

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said Fuller, who appeared successful tribunal by video-link from HMP Frankland, indispensable look successful idiosyncratic erstwhile she sentences him successful the week starting 5 December.

He is apt to beryllium sentenced astatine the Old Bailey, the justice said.

Prosecutor Michael Bisgrove said unfortunate idiosyncratic statements were being prepared.

"There are galore household members of the victims who would similar to be tribunal successful 1 mode oregon another, immoderate of whom who would privation to work their unfortunate idiosyncratic statements to the court," helium said.

Fuller had filmed himself abusing corpses successful the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital and the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, successful Pembury, wherever helium had worked arsenic an electrician since 1989, his erstwhile proceedings heard.

Kent Police said an probe had led to grounds relating to a full of 101 victims and the latest charges subordinate to the 23 remaining victims, each of whom were deceased big women - 10 person not been identified.

The authorities has announced an autarkic enquiry into however Fuller went undetected until being arrested for what person been dubbed the "bedsit murders" connected 3 December 2020 pursuing caller investigation of decades-old DNA evidence.

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