Chilling moment bedsit murderer caught amid fears he raped hundreds more corpses

Chilling footage shows the moment bedsit killer David Fuller was arrested amid fears the necrophiliac could have attacked hundreds more corpses.

Bodycam footage shows Fuller being calmly led away from his home in Heathfield, East Sussex, where horrific evidence was found of him violating deceased women’s bodies.

Police arrived at his home to question him over the murders of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pearce in 1987 – which he has pleaded guilty to.

While there they uncovered footage of him sexually abusing 98 dead girls and women in mortuaries, concealed in an office he had converted from a box bedroom.

There were more than 100 hard drives, 2,200 floppy discs, 30 sim cards and mobile phones, 1,300 CDs and DVDs, 34,000 photo prints, negatives, slides and camera rolls, and 3,500 digital storage devices.

Police believe that the shocking clips help explain the 1987 ‘bedsit murders’ of Ms Knell, 25, and Ms Pearce, 20, in Tunbridge Wells.

David Fuller, who has admitted strangling 25-year-old Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce, 20, in 1987

While searching his house, police uncovered footage of him abusing corpses (Picture: PA)

Pathologist Dr Nat Carey re-examined the original investigations and found that Ms Knell was abused ‘on the point of death or after death’.

The shocking mortuary films showed Fuller carrying out the twisted acts from 2008 up until November last year, the month before his arrest.

However, it is feared he could have been carrying out the violation of hundreds of bodies from when he first started working for the former Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells in 1989.

At Maidstone Crown Court on Thursday, Fuller admitted assaulting at least 99 dead bodies and his victims are believed to range from a girl aged nine and an 100-year-old woman.

Police have spent £2million putting together a team of 150 family liaison officers from 27 forces to track down the relatives of these victims.

The NHS has asked all health trusts to review mortuary access and post-mortem activities in the wake of the grim case.

Wendy was found dead in her bloodstained bed on the morning of June 23, 1987 (Picture: PA)

aroline went missing after being dropped off by a taxi outside her home on November 24 (Picture: PA)

Fuller was employed at the hospitals as an electrical maintenance supervisor by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

Although he had no specific role in the mortuary, Fuller had access through a swipe card to all areas of the hospital.

The shocking crimes were only discovered after he was arrested for the murders of Ms Knell and Ms Pierce, 20, following a DNA breakthrough.

NHS Trusts have been asked to urgently review practices with regards to effective CCTV coverage, all entry and access points controlled by swipe access, risk assessment and appropriate DBS check application.

Setting out the steps he was taking, Health Secretary Javid said: ‘I have asked the health sector to take three key actions in light of these events.

‘First, the NHS has written to all trusts asking for mortuary access and post-mortem activities to be reviewed against current guidance.

‘Second, an independently chaired review is already underway into exactly what occurred at the trust, which will report into me.

‘Finally, I have asked the Human Tissue Authority for advice on whether changes are required to our existing regulations.’

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