for more than 30 years david fuller was a hospital electrician at the kent and sussex hospital and thenospital, until police finally tracked him down last december — thanks to advances in dna testing. detectives say they may never know the full extent of his crimes. this report from our home affairs correspondent tom symonds contains disturbing details. after 33 years, he almost seemed to be expecting it. all right, david, you're under arrest on suspicion of the murders of wendy knell and caroline pierce in 1987. do you understand 7 yeah. david fuller, mr normal, at least on the outside. wendy knell and caroline pierce were starting out in life in a quiet town. you don't expect it _ in tonbridge wells, like myself, we were alljust working locally. it could have happened to any of us. julie monks was a friend of wendy's. she always wanted to get| married and have children and be a home—maker. that is what she, that is what she wanted to do. | but wendy's home, her tiny bedsit, was where she was murdered. caroline was attacked on her doorstep and taken away. three weeks later, a farm work

for more than 30 years, david fuller was a maintenance worker at the kent and sussex hospital and thenpital until police finally tracked him down last december thanks to advances in dna testing. police have contacted the families of many of the victims assaulted between 2008 and 2020 but detectives say they may never know the full extent of his crimes. this report from our home affairs correspondent tom symonds contains disturbing details. morning. it's the police. hello. after 33 years, he almost seemed to be expecting it. all right, david. you are under arrest on the suspicion of the murders of wendy knell and caroline pierce in 1987. do you understand 7 yeah. david fuller, mr normal — at least, on the outside. wendy knell and caroline pierce. independent young women in a quiet town in the 1980s. you don't expect it in a small town like tunbridge wells. like myself. we were alljust working locally. it could have happened to any of us. julie monks was a friend of wendy and worked with her in a caf. she always wanted to get married and have children and be a homemaker. that's what she

for more than 30 years david fuller was a maintenance worker at the kent and sussex hospital and thenr — thanks to advances in dna testing. police have contacted the families of many of the victims assaulted between 2008 and 2020 but detectives say they may never know the full extent of his crimes. this report from our home affairs correspondent tom symonds contains disturbing details. morning. it's the police. hello. after 33 years, he almost seemed to be expecting it. all right, david. you are under arrest on the suspicion of the murders of wendy knell and caroline pierce in 1987. do you understand ? yeah. david fuller, mr normal — at least, on the outside. wendy knell and caroline pierce. independent young women in a quiet town in the 1980s. you don't expect it in a small town like tunbridge wells. like myself. we were alljust working locally. it could have happened to any of us. julie monks was a friend of wendy and worked with her in a caf. she always wanted to get married and have children and be a homemaker. that's what she wanted to do. but wendy's home, her tiny bedsit, was w

the court heard that the sexual offences took place in the mortuaries of the kent and sussex hospitalm. wendy knell�*s body was found in her bedsit. caroline pierce's body was found in a drainage ditch in romney marsh, about 40 miles away. now david fuller, as i said, is accused of murdering them, but he has admitted killing both young women. he has said that he did so because he was suffering from a mental condition, which amounted to him not being responsible for what he was doing, an argument of diminished responsibility. opening the case this morning, the prosecutor said there was a different and clear explanation for the defendant's behaviour — he said that mr fuller had a desire for sexual gratification through the observation and identification of vulnerable women. gaining control of them and then indulging his depraved sexual predilections in relation to them. he said that that behaviour linked him with caroline and wendy's deaths. we also heard, in evidence that the jury was told would be difficult for them to hear during this trial, that david fuller worked at two hospitals,

we can now report for the first time that at the kent and sussex hospital and its successor, the tunbridge78 victims from details in his videos. 78 and counting. their families have been traced and visited. ., ., ., ., visited. you have got to tell them. we must tell— visited. you have got to tell them. we must tell them. _ visited. you have got to tell them. we must tell them. and _ visited. you have got to tell them. we must tell them. and there - visited. you have got to tell them. we must tell them. and there are| we must tell them. and there are some _ we must tell them. and there are some that — we must tell them. and there are some that have said, we wish you hadn't _ some that have said, we wish you hadn't told — some that have said, we wish you hadn't told us. i don't know how i would _ hadn't told us. i don't know how i would react— hadn't told us. i don't know how i would react if it happened to one of my close _ would react if it happened to one of my close loved ones, whether i would want to _ my close loved ones, whether i would want to know about it. i think we have _ want t

kent and sussex hospital and its replacement follower who worked as an electrician had visited the mortuarydead in herflat and tunbridge wells. five months later caroline peers just 20 tunbridge wells. five months later caroline peersjust 20 disappeared from outside her flat caroline peersjust 20 disappeared from outside herflat nearby. her body was found the following month. today the prosecution outlined the similarities between the cases two slight young women easily overpowered both living alone in a part of tunbridge wells that fuller knew well. both suffered head injuries, orstrangled knew well. both suffered head injuries, or strangled and were sexually assaulted. either at the point of or after their deaths. fuller admits killing both women but not murder but in abnormality of mind meant responsibility for his action doing the actions were diminished. the prosecution said is systematic, methodical and cold—blooded approach to the sexual abuse of corpses, images which were discovered on computer equipment seized from his home proved otherwise. such bizarre and grossly repellent activ

we can now report for the first time that at the kent and sussex hospital and its successor, the tunbridgeed. they include children and the elderly. fuller recorded some of their names in a little black book, but said practically nothing to police. is there anything you would like to add or clarify at this point, david? no. leaving them to identify more than 78 victims from details in his videos. 78 and counting. theirfamilies have been traced and visited. we've got to tell them. we must tell them. and there are some that have said, "we wish you hadn't told us." i don't know how i'd react if it happened to one of my close loved ones, whether i'd want to know about it. i think we have to tell them. fuller's claim that he was mentally ill was torn apart in court. psychiatrist dr richard badcock has advised the police on cases, including that of harold shipman. the psychopathology at work here is very definitely one of sadomasochism. which, in essence, is not being able to deal with your own issues, except by manipulated behaviour of other people. although you're doing extreme things... ..you

the court heard the sexual offences took place in the mortuaries of the kent and sussex hospital and s. we also heard in evidence that the jury was told would be difficult for them to hear during this trial that david fuller worked at two hospitals, the kent and sussex and the tunbridge wells hospital at pembrey, which replaced it. he had access to the mortuary, the court was told that david fuller had sexually abused the dead bodies of women being stored in the mortuary. in other submissions to thejury, the prosecution the mortuary. in other submissions to the jury, the prosecution said that there was strong dna evidence linking david fuller with both deaths, with both wendy was micro—death and caroline's death, and a fingerprint in blood which matched david. rescuers in nigeria are searching for survivors after a high—rise building collapsed in the capital, lagos. the block of flats — more than 20 storeys high — was under construction and there are fears that up to 100 workers may have been inside. it isn't clear what brought the building down, but construction safety standards in n

sussex warned the head of twitter 2a hours before the attack. a pandemic of the unvaccinated. the german government explains why hospitalsby record levels of covid. back from a waterless brink — the emergency measures helping cape town protect its long—term water supply. we have a special report.

sussex warned the head of twitter 2a hours before the attack. a pandemic of the unvaccinated. the german government explains why hospitalsre close to being overwhelmed by record levels of covid. back from a waterless brink — the emergency measures helping cape town protect its long—term water supply. we have a special report. it is three years now since cape town came terrifyingly close to running out of water completely. we were here then to report on the worlds first big modern city to face that threat. hello and welcome. a state of emergency has come into force in lithuania as the country grapples with a surge in illegal immigration from neighbouring belarus. lithuania fears that migrants currently stuck along the belarusian border with poland will try to find alternative routes to enter the european union. the eu has said it will impose additional sanctions on belarus because of what it describes as president lukashenko�*s gangster—style approach towards the migrants. aru na iyengar reports. let the weighty in troops ready to assist border guards. the alert level is raised. the new measures cover a short five kilomet

independent investigation into the case of a hospital electrician who accessed mortuaries and sexually abused around 100 bodies. david fullerfrom east sussexly have been defiled, it could actually be a lot more. . , ,., y defiled, it could actually be a lot more. . , ,., , ~ defiled, it could actually be a lot more. . ,,., , ~ ., more. absolutely. i think we heard in parliament _ more. absolutely. i think we heard in parliament today _ more. absolutely. i think we heard in parliament today mps _ more. absolutely. i think we heard in parliament today mps in - more. absolutely. i think we heard in parliament today mps in the - in parliament today mps in the health secretary acknowledging how serious this was. the health secretary has widened an inquiry to considered other areas such as undertakers, i think there is some concern out there that this may be happening or may have happened in other cases. we don't know that and we have to be clear that these actions are truly horrific and rare, but they do raise questions about the security of these kinds of places. the security of these kinds of laces. ., , . ., , , ., places. so, to be clear, t

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