An independent UK investigation found that years of “systematic procedural failures” at a public hospital allowed an electrician later convicted of murder to sexual abuse of the corpses of women and girls for 15 years.

David Fuller, 65, sentenced to life in prison in 2021. raped the lifeless bodies of more than 100 women and girls in the hospital morgue where he worked for 15 years, and no one suspected his actions.

The police exposed him when they found him photographs and videos in which he documented his abuse during a search of his home in the English county of East Sussex while he was being investigated for a double murder.

During this raid, agents discovered 818,051 images and 504 videos about the ill-treatment of a subject who was recorded committing acts of necrophilia in the morgue of the hospital where he worked.

According to local media reports, Fuller beat and strangled two women to death: Wendy Nell, 25, and Caroline Pearce, 20, before they were sexually assaulted in two separate attacks in 1987.

However, He was arrested only on December 3, 2020. when new DNA testing identified a relative in a national database and contacted Fuller.

When the photographs and videos were discovered, the British government ordered an investigation to find out how Fuller could commit crimes for so long without arousing suspicion.

It found that “mismanagement, regulatory failures, failure to adhere to standard policies and procedures, and a persistent lack of curiosity contributed to the creation of an environment in which he was able to commit crimes, and do this for 15 years without ever being suspected or caught.”

The investigation found that those responsible for managing the center should “think seriously and carefully about their responsibility for the identified weaknesses and shortcomings,” as reported yesterday by the head of the investigation, Jonathan Michael.

The opportunity to question Fuller’s employment practices was missed. According to investigators, for example, he regularly worked more than what was stipulated in the contract or performed unnecessary tasks at the morgue.

Michael pointed out that Fuller “In a year he came to the morgue 444 times. and it went unnoticed and unaddressed.”

(EFE)