Families given compensation over ‘Morgue Monster’ case
£6m in payouts for 200 victims of vile killer
VICTIMS of morgue monster David Fuller are in line for compensation packages, it emerged last night.
Health chiefs have agreed to pay families for the harrowing trauma inflicted by double killer Fuller, 68, when he violated loved ones’ dead bodies in a hospital mortuary.
Insiders believe payouts for as many as 200 victims could total more than £6million.
Fuller is serving two whole life terms for murdering Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, in 1987.
He was arrested in December 2020 and detectives discovered he had filmed himself abusing at least 101 corpses, aged nine to 100.
Fuller was an electrician at Tunbridge Wells Hospital, then known as Kent and Sussex Hospital, and had unfettered access to the site’s morgue.
Solicitors have won a fight for compensation after Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust agreed to fund a compensation scheme. The son of the oldest victim, Jane Knights, welcomed the move.
Mrs Knights died in March 2011 aged 100. Her son, Alan Knights, 74, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, said: “This doesn’t take the pain away. It was never about money, but I just want justice for my old man.
“The worst part is when you are awake you can control your thoughts, but when you sleep you can’t stop seeing the images of what Fuller did to my mum.
“The people I feel sorry for are those two girls who were killed, their families have been through hell.”
Ben Davey, legal executive at Dean Wilson LLP who is representing at least 80 victims, said: “It is a national scandal that David Fuller was able to perpetuate his offences on NHS property over such a long period of time.”
Fuller strangled and sexually assaulted Wendy and Caroline in Tunbridge Wells in 1987, in attacks branded the Bedsit Murders.
After a DNA breakthrough in 2020, police raided his home in Heathfield, East Sussex, and found hard drives with more than 14 million images of sexual offences.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust said: “The Trust wishes to apologise once again.
“No amount of compensation can lessen the pain.
“The Trust hopes the agreed compensation scheme will provide a fair and swift process for victims’ families.”
You can’t stop seeing the images of what Fuller did to my mum
ALAN KNIGHTS SON OF OLDEST KNOWN VICTIM