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   Years of “systemic procedural failings” at an NHS hospital enabled   
   necrophiliac murderer David Fuller to sexually abuse the corpses of   
   more than 100 women and girls over 15 years, an independent inquiry   
   has found.   
      
   The 69-year-old electrician was handed a whole-life order in 2021   
   after police uncovered a harrowing trove of photographs of the abuse   
   in a search of his East Sussex home. An inquiry was launched to   
   establish how he was able to commit his crimes undetected for so   
   long at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.   
      
   The inquiry has found that “failures of management, of governance,   
   of regulation, failure to follow standard policies and procedures,   
   together with a persistent lack of curiosity, all contributed to the   
   creation of the environment in which he was able to offend, and to   
   do so for 15 years without ever being suspected or caught”.   
      
   Leaders at the NHS trust, and others charged with oversight and   
   regulation, should “reflect seriously and carefully on their   
   responsibility for the weaknesses and failings” identified by the   
   inquiry, its lead, Sir Jonathan Michael, told reporters on Tuesday.   
      
   There were missed opportunities to question Fuller’s working   
   practices, and it was never properly queried why he routinely worked   
   beyond his contracted hours undertaking unnecessary tasks in the   
   mortuary, Sir Jonathan said.   
      
   “There was little regard given to who was accessing the mortuary.   
   Fuller entered the mortuary 444 times in a single year and this went   
   unnoticed and unchecked,” he added.   
      
   Mortuary staff were mostly unsupervised, left to their own devices,   
   and frequently did not follow standard operating procedures,   
   according to the inquiry, which heard from more than 200 witnesses   
   and reviewed some 3,700 documents.   
      
   “Deceased people were left out of fridges in the post-mortem room   
   both overnight, and during working hours when Fuller was carrying   
   out maintenance tasks,” said Sir Jonathan, noting that he was not   
   accompanied or supervised by mortuary staff at these times.   
      
   “On their intermittent assessments, those responsible for the   
   regulation of the mortuary often did not detect these systemic   
   procedural failings.”   
      
   Fuller himself told the inquiry that he had been able to access the   
   mortuary logbook to assess whether the corpses he abused posed a   
   risk of serious infections, and found a way to effectively lock the   
   door of the post-mortem room from the inside.   
      
   The inquiry was also told by one witness that they had been made   
   aware in 1998 of an allegation of necrophilia in the Kent and Sussex   
   Weald NHS Trust mortuary by an electrician. But the supposed remarks   
   were not corroborated by the person said to have made them and the   
   inquiry was unable to substantiate the claim.   
      
   Among 17 recommendations made by the inquiry, the trust has been   
   told to install CCTV footage within the mortuary, and advised that   
   non-mortuary staff and contractors should always be accompanied by   
   another staff member when they visit the facility.   
      
   Fuller filmed himself sexually abusing the corpses of more than 100   
   women and girls in the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital, and   
   Tunbridge Wells Hospital, where he had worked since 1989.   
      
   More than half of his offences were committed between 2018 and his   
   arrest in December 2020 – a period which coincided with “rapid   
   improvement” in other areas of the NHS Trust’s performance, Sir   
   Jonathan noted.   
      
   “This serves as a stark reminder that there may be serious hidden   
   issues found in organisations that are apparently performing well,”   
   he said.   
      
   Police discovered a library of 818,051 images and 504 videos of   
   Fuller’s abuse during a search of his three-bedroom home in   
   Heathfield, where he lived with his family – after Fuller was   
   arrested for one of the UK’s longest-standing unsolved double-murder   
   cases.   
      
   In what had been dubbed the “bedsit murders”, Fuller beat and   
   strangled Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, to death before   
   sexually assaulting them in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells   
   in 1987.   
      
   Ms Knell was found dead in her flat, while Ms Pierce was snatched   
   five months later from outside her home, half a mile away on a quiet   
   residential street. Her naked body was discovered in a water-filled   
   dyke at St Mary in the Marsh on 15 December.   
      
   But it was only with a new analysis of decades-old DNA evidence –   
   which identified a relative on the national database – that Fuller   
   was finally arrested on 3 December 2020.   
      
   While Fuller initially pleaded not guilty to the murders on the   
   grounds of diminished responsibility, he dramatically changed his   
      
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