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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andy Gregory

David Fuller: NHS failings enabled necrophiliac to sexually abuse bodies for 15 years without being caught

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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.

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