David Fuller

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David Fuller
Born (1954-09-04) 4 September 1954 (age 70)
Deal, Kent, England
OccupationHospital electrician (supervisor)
Known forThe Bedsit Murders
Criminal statusConvicted
Conviction(s)Whole life order
Criminal chargeMurder, necrophilia
PenaltyLife imprisonment
Details
Date15 December 2021
Date apprehended
2020
Imprisoned atHMP Frankland

David Fuller (born 4 September 1954) is an English convicted murderer and necrophile.[1]

In 2021, he was convicted of the murders of Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, whom he strangled and sexually assaulted after breaking into their homes, months apart in 1987, in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in what became known as the Bedsit murders.[2][1] The killer's DNA had been known since a cold case review in 2007, and analysis of the samples in the two cases would later prove that the murders were committed by the same unidentified perpetrator.[3][4] Fuller was eventually identified as the perpetrator in 2020 when a match was made between his DNA and the samples from the case.[4] When finally apprehended Fuller also received 12 years for mortuary offences, having recorded himself abusing the bodies of more than 100 female corpses, over the course of his employment as an electrician at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, also in Tunbridge Wells, and the Tunbridge Wells Hospital in nearby Pembury which replaced it.[1]

He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order on 15 December 2021, meaning that he will serve his life sentence without the possibility of parole.[1][5][6]

In October 2021, Fuller was charged with an additional 16 offences committed at mortuaries in the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital, and its successor, the Tunbridge Wells hospital at Pembury, between 2007 and 2020,[7] and pleaded guilty to the charges on 3 November 2022.[8] He is imprisoned at HMP Frankland, alongside other prisoners such as Wayne Couzens and Michael Stone.[9]

  1. ^ a b c d "Hospital electrician convicted of cold-case double murder and 51 sexual offences". Crown Prosecution Service. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  2. ^ "The double murderer who sexually abused the dead for decades". BBC News. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  3. ^ "DNA profile for cold case killer". BBC News. 20 August 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b "David Fuller trial: Advances in DNA analysis caught women's killer". BBC News. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Killer who abused mortuary bodies will die in jail". bbc.co.uk. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  6. ^ "David Fuller: MPs call for public inquiry into mortuary abuse". www.bbc.co.uk. 5 November 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  7. ^ "David Fuller: Double murderer charged with more mortuary abuse". bbc.co.uk. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  8. ^ "David Fuller: Double murderer pleads guilty to more mortuary sexual abuse". bbc.co.uk. 3 November 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  9. ^ Axtell, Sean (25 May 2022). "Inside HMP Frankland where Wayne Couzens, David Fuller and Michael Stone are locked up". Retrieved 28 December 2022.