Mum’s outrage at bedsit murderer who violated 99 females in morgues
THE mother of a woman whose dead body was violated three times by necrophile and murderer David Fuller has voiced her horror at his appalling crimes.
The corpse of Azra Kemal was one of at least 99 females interfered with – aged between nine and 100 – by the hospital electrician.
Her mother Nevres was devastated when officers revealed how Azra’s body was abused at the morgue in Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
It compounded her grief after she lost her daughter, 24, in July 2020 when the trainee lawyer fell from a bridge while fleeing a burning car.
Nevres, a social worker from north London, said: “I had spent two hours in the mortuary sleeping with her. And that gave me some comfort.
“Little did I know that my daughter had been violated prior to that day and the evening of that day.
“So, whilst I’m stroking my daughter’s hair, sleeping on her hair, a man had crawled all over her skin.”
Double killer Fuller sexually interfered with the corpses of at least 99 females between 2008 and November 2020. But investigators only know the names of 78.
Fuller, 67, filmed himself carrying out the sick acts at mortuaries in the Kent and Sussex Hospital and the
Tunbridge Wells Hospital. He was arrested for the 1987 “bedsit murders” of Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, last December after a DNA breakthrough.
Fuller’s sickening crimes can now be reported after he admitted the murders part-way through his trial at Maidstone Crown Court.
He had originally pleaded not guilty to murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Fuller pleaded guilty to 51 other offences, including 44 charges relating to the 78 identified victims in mortuaries. They include the sexual penetration of a corpse and taking indecent images of children.
He was often alone in the mortuary after its staff left and would disappear into areas not covered by cameras, detectives said.
Fuller’s crimes were discovered when officers searched his home in Heathfield, East Sussex, and found four hard drives, containing pictures and videos of him sexually assaulting dead women and girls.
But police say the true scale of his offending may never be known.
Kent Police Chief Superintendent Paul Fotheringham chaired an identification panel using techniques learned from the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell disaster.
But he said: “There are some we are not going to be able to ever identify.” More than 150 liaison officers have visited affected families and £1.5million has been earmarked to fund victim support.
Senior prosecutor Libby Clark said: “It’s just incomprehensible the scale and depravity.”
Wendy Knell’s family said: “Hopefully, we can now start to move past the pain and remember her as the beautiful, kind, generous, caring, funny girl she was.
“Although the guilty plea won’t change anything deep down as the pain will always be there, it’s good knowing he will not cause any more hurt.”