A hospital electrician who sexually abused the dead body of a London graduate and dozens of others was convicted of double murder and jailed for life today.
David Fuller struck, strangled, and sexually assaulted Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, after breaking into their homes in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, months apart in 1987.
Fuller, 67, evaded responsibility for the killings for 33 years until he was arrested by Kent Police following a DNA breakthrough in December 2020.
Searches of Fuller’s home uncovered hard drives concealed in a hide, revealing evidence of prolific sexual offending of a kind no British court has ever seen.
David Fuller
Between 2008 and 2020, Fuller filmed and photographed himself sexually abusing the bodies of dozens of women and girls at two Tunbridge Wells hospital mortuaries which he accessed as a maintenance supervisor.
This included the body of LSE law graduate Azra Kemal, 24, who died in 2020 after falling from a bridge in Kent.
Fuller was given 12 years in total for violating the bodies of at least 102 women, which will run concurrently with his two life sentences for the murder of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in 1987.
Speaking outside the court, she said: “Justice has been served for those families that had their children murdered and that’s the most important thing. I personally don’t feel three months for my daughter being vaginally penetrated, three months for my daughter being anally penetrated and three months for my daughter being orally penetrated on three occasions is fair and just.
“This is not fair and just, it’s not acceptable, she was worth more than that. People that sell drugs or have Class A drugs on them have a larger sentence. It’s a disgrace and I’m more than disappointed.”
She added that the judge did all she could but said the “law has to change.”
Following the sentencing MPs have called for an increase in the sentencing for the “heinous crimes of the sexual abuse of dead bodies”.
An Azra Kemal Legal Internship Programme has been set up in her memory, saying it aims is to “give disadvantaged women the opportunity to succeed in the legal profession” and so far have been able to raise money to cover one internship and are looking to cover the second. To donate or find out more information visit; https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/azra-kemal/
