An independent investigation in the United Kingdom has found that years of "systemic procedural failures" at a public hospital allowed an electrician, who was later convicted of murder, to sexually abuse the corpses of women and girls over 15 years.
David Fuller, 65, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2021, raped the lifeless bodies of more than 100 women and girls in the morgue of the hospital where he worked over a period of 15 years without that no one would suspect his actions.
The police unmasked him when they found photographs and videos in which he documented his abuse during a search of his home in the English county of East Sussex when he was investigated for his involvement in a double murder case. During that raid, the agents found 818,051 images and 504 videos of the subject's abuse, who recorded himself committing acts of necrophilia in the morgue of the hospital where he worked.
According to local media, Fuller beat and strangled two women to death: Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, before sexually abusing both in two separate attacks in 1987. However, he did not He was arrested until December 3, 2020, when new analysis of DNA evidence allowed a relative to be identified in the national database and lead to Fuller.
When the photographs and videos were found, the British Government ordered an investigation to clarify how Fuller was able to commit the crimes for so long without raising suspicions. It determined that "management failures, regulatory failures, failures to follow standard policies and procedures, along with a persistent lack of curiosity contributed to the creation of an environment in which he was able to commit crimes, and do so for 15 years without ever being convicted." suspected or caught."
The investigation indicated that those responsible for running the center should "reflect seriously and carefully about their responsibility for the weaknesses and deficiencies" identified, as indicated yesterday by Jonathan Michael, head of the investigation.
Opportunities were missed to question Fuller's employment practices, according to the investigation, such as him routinely working more hours than stipulated in his contract or carrying out non-required tasks at the morgue. Michael stated that Fuller "entered the morgue 444 times in a single year and this went unnoticed and was not reviewed."
