You can’t imagine how distraught I am, says wife of necrophiliac killer
Partner of David Fuller said she was too upset to carry on with their relationship after learning of his crimes
THE wife of a double murderer who sexually abused corpses in a hospital mortuary described yesterday how she “couldn’t carry on” with their 22-year marriage after learning of his crimes.
Mala Fuller, 50, who married electrician David Fuller in Barbados in 1999, only learnt of the full extent of his necrophilia last month.
Her husband has been named as one of the worst sex offenders in British legal history and is feared to have defiled hundreds of bodies at two hospitals in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, over at least 12 years before his arrest last December.
“I’m not with him. I couldn’t carry on in that relationship,” she admitted. “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.”
An opportunity to intercept Fuller in 2015 was lost when details of previously unknown convictions were not passed on to the NHS. Fuller failed to mention his 1973 and 1977 convictions for burglaries when hired in 1989.
An NHS source told The Telegraph: “It’s impossible to know what we would have done had we been told. However, that would have been the first opportunity for the trust to know that he had lied on his original application form.”
Greg Clark, the Tory MP for Tunbridge Wells, led growing calls for a full public inquiry as the daughter of one victim, who wishes to remain anonymous, told The Daily Telegraph of the moment family liaison officers knocked on her door last month.
She said the news they shared about her mother had plunged her back into grief, filling her head with “horrific images” that she was unable to shift.
She said she wished “every [day]” that she had not been told so she could remember her mother as she knew her.
Fuller, 67, was arrested last December on suspicion of murdering Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, in Tunbridge Wells, in 1987. The “bedsit murders” remained unsolved until DNA evidence led police to his door.
During a subsequent search of the home he shared with his third wife and 20-year-old son in Heathfield, East Sussex, detectives found hard drives containing hundreds of homemade videos shot inside a hospital mortuary, where he had sex with female corpses in the one area not covered by CCTV.
Fuller, 67, is facing a whole-life term after admitting to the sexual assault and murders of Ms Knell and Ms Pierce.
He also admitted to 51 other offences, including 44 charges relating to 78 identified victims in two mortuaries, at the former Kent and Sussex Hospital, which closed in 2011 and the Tunbridge Wells hospital, which opened in 2010.