David Fuller (Kent Police/PA)
(Picture: PA Media)David Fuller, a double murderer who sexually abused corpses in a hospital morgue, has been charged with a further sixteen offences.
Fuller, 68, beat and strangled Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, to death before sexually assaulting them in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987.
He also filmed himself abusing corpses, including a nine-year-old girl, two 16-year-olds, and a 100-year-old woman, over 12 years before his arrest in December 2020.
Fuller, who was jailed for life in December 2021, will appear in court on Thursday to face 16 further charges relating to sexual offences committed in a mortuary setting.
He previously pleaded guilty to murdering Ms Knell and Ms Pierce, as well as 51 other offences, including 44 charges relating to 78 victims in mortuaries between 2008 and November 2020.
Fuller attacked his victims in the mortuaries of the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital and the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, in Pembury, where he had worked as an electrician since 1989.
Those charges included the sexual penetration of a corpse, possessing an extreme pornographic image involving sexual interference with a corpse and taking indecent images of children.
Kent Police said an investigation found evidence relating to a total of 101 victims in these mortuary settings.
The latest charges are connected to the 23 remaining victims, all of whom were deceased adult women, allegedly taking place between 2007 and 2020, the force said.
It said: “An extensive and complex identification process has led to 13 of these 23 further victims being formally identified.
“It has not been possible to establish the identities of the other 10 victims; however, the charges reflect offending against all of them.
“No evidence has been found of any further victims."
Fuller, who is set to appear by video link at Medway Magistrates’ Court later this week faces ten charges under section 70 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which relate to offences involving 10 identified victims;
He faces two further charges under section 70 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which relate to offences involving three unidentified victims.
Two charges have been authorised under section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, relating to the alleged possession of extreme pornography in connection with 13 identified victims.
Officers said two further charges were authorised under section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 which relate to the possession of extreme pornography in connection with 10 unidentified victims.
