A KILLER who sexually abused 99 corpses had an "all-access hospital pass" despite having a CRIMINAL record, it's been revealed.

       David Fuller, 67, bludgeoned Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce to death in their Kent flats in 1987 in crimes known as the Bedsit Murders.

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       The sick monster had an 'all access' pass despite bosses knowing he had a criminal record 2

       David Fuller admitted to the sick and heinous crimes Credit: AFP

       The monster also sexually abused at least 99 corpses in hospital mortuaries - including children as young as nine - even after bosses learned he had a criminal record.

       Fuller admitted to his sick and heinous crimes and is now facing a whole-life term in prison.

       More than 20 years after the murders, he defiled scores of dead women and girls at mortuaries he had access to through his work as a technical supervisor at a hospital.

       Fuller was forced to have a criminal record check for the first time in early 2015 following revelations Jimmy Savile had sexually assaulted patients, the Mirror reports.

       It emerged that he had convictions for burglaries in the 1970s that he had previously lied about, according to a source.

       But despite his record, he was allowed to work with an "access to all areas" hospital swipe card.

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       Fuller's last known morgue attack was in November last year - meaning that the sick man continued to abuse corpses FIVE years after the criminal record check.

       Alan Collins, partner Hugh James Solicitors – a specialist in representing victims of sexual abuse, told the newspaper: "Burglary is an offence of dishonesty and considered rightly as a serious offence.

       "Therefore, it is astonishing that Fuller was employed in any position, let alone which involved trust, that gave him any kind of contact with the vulnerable, or where security issues are involved.

       "It strikes me as almost reckless to have allowed Fuller access to a mortuary let alone any other area of a hospital where personal integrity should be beyond question."

       A Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust source told the Mirror that Fuller's employers, a private contractor, learned of his convictions in 2015 but did not inform the trust.

       He declared that he did not have any convictions twice before the Disclosure and Barring check in 2015.

       The NHS Trust has been contacted for comment.

       SHOCKING FAILURE

       Fuller, of affluent market town Heathfield in East Sussex, initially pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

       However, midway through his trial, he suddenly admitted murdering the women. He will die behind bars.

       As a result of his guilty pleas, it can also be reported today that the defendant has already admitted 51 other offences, including 44 charges relating to dead victims.

       Charges include the sexual penetration of a corpse, possessing an extreme pornographic image involving sexual interference with a corpse and taking indecent images of children.

       One charge alone relates to 25 deceased females.

       He was only linked to the killings of Wendy and Caroline three decades after their deaths following a series of cold case reviews, Crimewatch appeals and finally a major breakthrough in DNA evidence.

       And his offences against deceased women and girls came to light when disgusted cops found four hard drives packed with millions of indecent images and videos of "unimaginable depravity".

       Among them were his own acts of necrophilia, carried out in two mortuaries while he worked for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

       Fuller had access to all areas of Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells, which closed in September 2011, and the replacement Tunbridge Wells Hospital in nearby Pembury.

       After the horrific abuse, he used Facebook to track down the people he'd defiled and learn about their lives during a spine-chilling spree of crimes that went on from 2008 to November 2020.

       He was still working for the hospital when he was arrested.

       Prosecutors say the case is "unprecedented in legal history" and "the stuff of nightmares".

       KILLER WILL DIE IN JAIL

       Fuller changed his pleas four days into his trial.

       As the murder charges were put to him again, he pulled down his mask and replied "guilty" to both.

       The slayings were one of the UK's longest unsolved double homicide cases.

       Both women lived alone in ground-floor flats less than a mile apart in Tunbridge Wells and worked in the town - although they didn't know each other.

       Wendy was found dead in her bloodstained bed on the morning of June 23, 1987.

       There were signs of blunt force trauma to her head, and she'd been strangled. Detectives found evidence of a vile sexual assault carried out after her death.

       Caroline, 20, went missing after being dropped off by a taxi outside her home on November 24 that year.

       Neighbours allegedly heard "high-pitched screams of terror".

       Her naked body was later discovered in a water-filled dyke at St Mary-in-the-Marsh on December 15, 1987.

       The court heard a man matching Fuller's description was seen prowling the Tunbridge Wells area at the time of the killings.

       He lived with his then-wife just two miles away from the bedsits where both Caroline and Wendy lived.

       On the night Wendy died, a man who looked like Fuller was seen peering at a woman through a window.

       DISGUSTING CRIMES

       Caroline also reported a "prowler" outside her home just a month before she vanished, it was heard.

       Under the law, Fuller's abuse of female corpses carries a maximum of just two years in prison.

       But he is likely to face a whole-life prison term for the murders, meaning he will never be freed.

       Libby Clark of the CPS said today: "David Fuller’s deeply distressing crimes are unlike any other I have encountered in my career and unprecedented in British legal history.

       “This highly dangerous man has inflicted unimaginable suffering on countless families and he has only admitted his long-held secrets when confronted with overwhelming evidence.

       “Fuller, with his uncontrolled sense of sexual entitlement, treated Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce with extreme depravity. Both women were simply at home or returning from work when he ambushed them.

       “Their families never gave up on achieving justice even when all hope seemed lost. My thoughts are with them today and all the families of women and girls whose lives have been cut short by senseless violence.

       “Fuller’s appalling crimes did not end with these killings and he went on to abuse his position of trust as a hospital electrician in the most grotesque manner imaginable.

       “No British court has ever seen abuse on this scale against the dead before and I have no doubt he would still be offending to this day had it not been for this painstaking investigation and prosecution.”

       Wendy Knell was murdered in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987

       Caroline Pierce was 20 years old when she was strangled to death and found in a field in Kent

       Police arrest David Fuller for the murder of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce