Bedsit killer and depraved morgue monster David Fuller will die behind bars after being sentenced to life in prison.
The perverted murderer, 67, pleaded guilty to the murders of Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, last month.
Fuller beat and strangled the women to death before sexually assaulting them in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987.
He also admitted a further 51 offences related to sexually abusing at least 102 victims, of which 82 have been identified, in the mortuaries of Kent and Sussex and Tunbridge Wells hospitals over more than a decade.
His youngest victim was just nine, two were aged 16, and the oldest was 100. The identities of the remaining 20 victims may never be known.
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Fuller was sentenced to two whole life orders for the murders of Ms Knell and Ms Pierce. He was also given concurrent sentences totalling 12 years for the sexual abuse of the deceased females.
He joins Levi Bellfield, the killer of Milly Dowler, Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange, as the only criminal in UK legal history to be serving two whole life orders.
In her sentencing remarks today, the judge said Fuller ‘became a vulture, picking victims from among the dead,’ adding ‘the depravity of what you did reveals your conscience is seared.’
Fuller filmed himself carrying out the attacks inside the hospitals, where he worked in electrical maintenance roles.
He stored records of his serial sex offending on computer folders with titles including ‘Necro Lord’, ‘Register’, ‘Deadly’, ‘Deadliest’ and ‘Best Yet’.
The folders contained names, numbers and dates, as well as images of a mortuary logbook used to create his own record of those he defiled.
The sentencing hearing heard impact statements from a string of the victims’ family members.
The mother of Fuller’s youngest victim, a nine-year-old girl, addressed him directly, saying: ‘David, you know who I am because you read the letter I wrote to my baby.’
She added: ‘You raped my baby. She couldn’t say no to the dirty 66-year-old man who was abusing her body. I feel guilty I left her there. I will not enjoy my life again. This unnatural sick pain I will never get over.’
The widower of another woman told him: ‘David, when you are serving your time behind bars, think carefully about what you have done and thank your lucky stars that I’m not sharing a cell with you.’
Judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb QC told the killer today: ‘These were premeditated killings, carefully planned and executed.’
Ordering Fuller to stand to be sentenced, the judge said: ‘You had no regard for the dignity of the dead. You have spent the last 45 years living an outwardly mild and ordinary life.
‘You were described as a man good under pressure while in seclusion you committed acts of the deepest darkness.
‘You became a vulture, picking your victims from among the dead within the hidden world of hospital mortuaries which you were free to inhabit simply because you had a swipe card.
‘The depravity of what you did reveals your conscience is seared. You will spend every day of the rest of your life in prison.’
