Morgue predator ‘could face another 100 assault charges’

MORGUE monster David Fuller may face more than 100 extra charges over his violation of corpses in one of Britain’s biggest healthcare scandals.

Detectives were previously only able to charge him with offences relating to 78 victims he assaulted while working at the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital.

But police are preparing to charge the 67-year-old with new offences relating to the bodies of over 100 victims he assaulted while working for the NHS from 1989 to 2020, ranging in age from nine to 100. Some 827 relatives have contacted police asking whether he abused their loved ones. Investigators are also looking at the murder of Jessie Earl in 1980, when Fuller was living near the art student in Eastbourne.

In 1987 the electrician killed Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, in separate incidents in Tunbridge Wells.

In December, Fuller was given a whole life sentence, and a public inquiry has been launched into practices in UK mortuaries. Separately, lawyers have launched a class action negligence suit against the NHS.