MORGUE monster David Fuller called himself the ‘Necro Lord’ and kept a "library of sexual depravity", a court heard today.
The evil double killer, who went on to sexually abuse more than 100 female corpses in hospital mortuaries, stored horrific records of his attacks - with folders titled 'Deadliest' and 'Best Yet' found on his computer.
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Sick David Fuller was handed a life jail sentence today
Electrician Fuller, known as the ‘Bedsit Killer’, beat and strangled Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20, to death before sexually assaulting them in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987.
The 67-year-old was caught 33 years after the attacks when a DNA breakthrough linked him to the murders.
And a search of his home, in Heathfield, East Sussex, on December 3 last year revealed dozens of sick videos of him abusing the bodies of dead women for over a decade.
It is estimated he abused at least 102 women, of which 82 have been identified but the outstanding 20 identities may never be known, the court heard.
The youngest victim was nine, two were aged 16, and the oldest was 100.
His offences included the sexual penetration of a corpse, possessing an extreme pornographic image involving sexual interference with a corpse and taking indecent images of children.
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Fuller was handed a life sentence at Maidstone Crown Court in Kent, marking an end to what had been one of the UK's longest unsolved double murder cases.
Outlining his offences today, Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC revealed the horrific details of how they had been committed and how they were discovered by police.
Sickeningly, Fuller stored records of his serial sex offending on computer folders with titles including 'Necro Lord', 'Register', 'Deadly', 'Deadliest' and 'Best Yet'.
Images had even been manipulated to lighten or erase visible scars on the corpse, and from one one-minute video alone Fuller had created a staggering 1,800 still images.
Mr Atkinson said Fuller was first employed within the NHS trust as an electrical maintenance craftsman from January 1989 before progressing to maintenance supervisor in March 2002 and then estate supervisor from May 2011.
'NECRO LORD'
"While having access to the two hospital mortuaries, David Fuller systematically and repeatedly sexually abused the bodies of dead women and girls located there," he told the court.
Mr Atkinson explained that Fuller was "generally the last person present at the mortuary at the end of the day", where he "had access via a swipe card".
He said: "He used a personal digital camera to take pictures of and to film his activities. He then kept records of those activities on hard drives concealed in his home office.
"They had been indexed and put in a digital library of folders and sub-folders, described at his trial as a library of unimaginable sexual depravity.
"Police also found printed images of deceased women being sexually abused and it is possible to see it is the defendant abusing them.
"That material was then found with a number of hard drives in a homemade box attached to a chest of drawers in a wardrobe in his home office."
He used a personal digital camera to take pictures of and to film his activities. He then kept records of those activities on hard drives concealed in his home office. They had been indexed and put in a digital library of folders and sub-folders, described at his trial as a library of unimaginable sexual depravity.
Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC
The court heard 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.
Some victims were abused on multiple occasions and some both before and after post-mortem examinations.
Mr Atkinson continued: "When interviewed he said he wanted to admit the offences but didn't want to talk about them.
"We suggest he proceeded to seek to minimise his offending in what he was going to say.
"He said he didn't remember the first time it had happened. He agreed recording names and ages of those he assaulted but said he didn't commit the offences to derive any sexual pleasure from them.
"He said the offences were not planned. He would get the names of people from the tags on their arms.
"He thought his oldest victim was '60/70', the youngest 'nine'. On eight occasions his Facebook account was linked to the victims."
The court heard the hard drives also revealed research under the headings 'rape' and 'murder', with images of naked deceased women, of strangulation and slash wounds, and of apparently dead women being abused.
"That entire history is an aggravating feature in that it demonstrates a bizarre and deeply-held interest in rape, murder and abuse of dead women," added Mr Atkinson.
Fuller initially pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Ms Knell and Ms Pierce by diminished responsibility, but days into his trial he admitted murdering the two women.
He also pleaded guilty to 51 other offences, including 44 charges relating to 78 identified victims, including three children.
Sentencing Fuller to life in prison today, judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said: "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."
As well as the life order, Fuller was given 12 years in prison for the 51 other offences, to be served concurrently with the whole-life terms for murder.
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Police searching Fuller's home found sick evidence of his abuse 5
The killer was handed a life sentence today Credit: Chris Eades 5
Fuller admitted killing Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in 1987 Credit: PA 5
Fuller went on to defile and abuse hundreds of bodies while working at NHS hospitals in Kent and Tunbridge Wells Credit: PA
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