While delivering his four-year prison sentence on charges of having sex with female corpses and possessing pornography belonging to 23 victims between 2007 and 2020, which is the final phase of this case, David Fuller , who admitted his actions didn’t seem impressed, according to AFP.
In December 2021, this 68-year-old electrician was sentenced to life in prison for similar actions against dozens of dead women and for killing two young women in 1987.
In total, David Fuller sexually assaulted the bodies of “no fewer than 101 women and girls, although the identities of ten of these have not been identified and may never be identified,” prosecutors confirmed during the hearing. While the youngest victim was nine years old, the oldest was one hundred.
“You will be in jail until the last day of your life,” the judge said as he delivered the additional sentence passed against Fuller. Turning to the facts, the Attorney General noted that it was a case “unprecedented in the history of British justice”.
Fuller worked as an electrician for two hospitals in southern England on night shifts, so he was often left alone after staff left, so he had easy access to morgues and refrigerators where the bodies were placed.
Fuller’s actions went undisclosed for more than a decade, but in December 2020, thanks to DNA techniques, police were able to apprehend him as a suspect in the 1987 murder of two young women in Tunbridge Wells. ‘England). Fuller sexually assaulted and strangled the two women.
During a search of his home, the investigators found a huge amount of pornographic images, as well as video clips he shot during the attacks he was carrying out in the morgues.
Great disgust
Before the verdict was handed down on Wednesday, family members of the victims spoke before the court, including the daughter of one of the victims, who said she was in “great disgust” describing Fuller as a “monster”.
Another victim’s brother said: “David Fuller has erased every memory I have of my sister, because all I can think about is what he did to her when she should have been resting.”
Last month, the families of the victims received financial compensation for the trauma they suffered as a result of this case.
The judge turned his conversation to David Fuller, telling him, “You didn’t care about the dignity of the dead. Your perverted actions towards those you killed and the women you assaulted after their deaths demonstrate that you are ruthless.”
This case has sparked panic in the UK, prompting members of the House of Lords to call for tougher punishments for anyone who sexually assaults a dead body. Currently, anyone who commits similar acts is punished with two years’ imprisonment.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has commented on Fuller’s conviction for the two murders dating back to 1987, while then Health Minister Sajid Javid has launched an independent investigation into how the 60-year-old managed to sexually assault corpses in public hospitals for a long time without anyone noticing what was happening.
The results of the investigation are expected to be disclosed next year.
