More than 200 horrified relatives called police yesterday demanding to know if a double murderer defiled their loved ones’ bodies in hospital mortuaries.
A police helpline was flooded by calls from devastated families after it emerged that morgue predator David Fuller had sexually violated at least 100 corpses while working at two hospitals in one of Britain’s biggest healthcare scandals.
Fuller confessed in dramatic fashion to killing two women in 1987, while Fuller was being tried on Thursday. Police also revealed that Fuller could have attacked the bodies of many women and girls who worked for the NHS over the years as an electrician.

More than 200 horrified relatives called police yesterday demanding to know if a double murderer defiled their loved ones’ bodies in hospital mortuaries

A police helpline was flooded by calls from devastated families after it emerged that morgue predator David Fuller had sexually violated at least 100 corpses while working at two hospitals in one of Britain’s biggest healthcare scandals
His wife Mala (50) spoke for the first-time yesterday, stating that she ended their marriage. She said: ‘I’m not with him. I couldn’t carry on in that relationship.
‘I’m too upset to even think about what was going on, I couldn’t live with it. You can’t imagine how distraught I am.’
The demand for a thorough public inquiry grew amid concern by campaigners as well as MPs about possible attacks in other hospitals around the country.
CCTV cannot be used in hospital mortuaries for post-mortem examinations because it violates guidelines about dignity.
Fuller could carry out crimes of unimaginable depravity against at least 100 victims. He was not caught until his arrest for the murders that he committed 33 years ago.
This week Fuller finally admitted the 1987 killings of Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent – known as the ‘Bedsit Murders’ – after a DNA breakthrough cracked one of Britain’s longest unsolved murder cases.
Fuller was part of a cycling club in the 1980s with one of the group’s routes going directly past where Miss Pierce’s body was found.
Mala, Mala’s third wife, stated that she moved from the Heathfield home where she lived with him for twenty years after his December shock arrest.
She said: ‘I could not stay in that house knowing what he did and what went on in there.
‘I wanted to be alone and want to live my life alone.’ Yesterday the daughter of Fuller’s first wife, Gill Palmer, said she was ‘numb’ with shock at the ‘unbearable’ details.
Gemma Keena, 39 – Miss Palmer’s daughter from a later relationship – told of the devastating effect on her mother and half-brother and half-sister.
‘They are in such shock, the details are unbearable. I’d say they are numb,’ she said.
‘He isn’t my father, I came along later. It’s still an awful shock but it’s really dreadful for my brother, sister and my mum. It is very difficult for them to deal with what he did. It’s so awful you don’t even want to say it.
‘It was only when they went down to a pre-trial hearing that they learnt about what he’d done in the hospitals.’

Police say they will never know how many women and girls David Fuller (pictured) violated – but admit it could be hundreds more
This pervert kept detailed records of his sex attacks, printed photographs and stored thousands of digital photos and videos at home.
Detectives have established that he assaulted at least 100 deceased women after 2008 in the mortuaries of Kent and Sussex Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital – 81 of whom have been identified from the records Fuller kept.
His oldest victim was 100 years old, and his youngest was only nine. Because the photos taken do not bear any identifying marks, police believe that some bodies won’t be identified.
Officers have pored over 150,000 hours of hospital CCTV footage and swipe card data to track Fuller’s movements from 2019 onwards, narrowing down the time he could have entered the post-mortem room to commit the crimes.
But detectives believe there could be hundreds more victims, as there were 20 to 25 women’s bodies stored in the mortuary at any one time.
Fuller was an electrician in the Tunbridge wells’ Kent and Sussex Hospital from 1989 to 2010. He then moved to Pembury’s Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
The criminal convictions of this burglar date back to 1970, but he managed to dodge the criminal record check when he first started working at the hospital.

Fuller brought to justice, the moment he was identified as a corpse defiler or murderer. This happened more than 30 year after two murders.
Yesterday, however, it was revealed that Mitie (the company providing facilities staff to Tunbridge Wells Hospital) learned of his criminal history in 2015.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust maintained that they were not informed.
Greg Clark (Tory MP) demanded an inquiry yesterday. Clark claimed that there wasn’t any way to know if abuse was also occurring in other NHS mortuaries.
Fuller’s trust is currently being reviewed by an independent party. However, MPs have called for a more extensive national audit. Mr Clark said: ‘The questions that are raised include local ones about how this was allowed to happen.
‘But there are also national ones as to whether national policy was good enough, was stringent enough, and whether it could have happened in other hospitals across the country.’
He said the lack of CCTV in post-mortem rooms was a concern, adding: ‘We do not know how many people Fuller assaulted and how many people there are like Fuller across the country. We need to work on the assumption that there may be others and we need to protect people from being preyed on.’
A spokesman for the Centre for Women’s Justice said: ‘A proper inquiry must now take place to explore how Fuller was able to continue perpetrating these appalling acts over such a long period of time.’
Responding to calls for an inquiry, a spokesman for Boris Johnson said: ‘We’re not ruling it out, but we need to let the investigations that are already under way take place.’
A Kent Police spokesman said: ‘Kent Police has set up a contact centre and major incident public portal for people who may feel they may have information about the ongoing investigation into David Fuller.’