Azra Kemal was one of at least 100 victims of NHS worker David Fuller, a hospital electrician who abused female corpses from a nine-year-old girl to a 100-year-old woman
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Azra Kemal was one of at least 100 victims of NHS worker David Fuller, a hospital electrician who abused female corpses from a nine-year-old girl to a 100-year-old woman
The mother of one of
David Fuller’s victims said finding out he had abused her daughter’s body was like hearing that she had died all over again.
Nevres Kemal’s only daughter Azra died after falling from a bridge in a tragic accident in Kent and her body was then raped by vile Fuller while in a morgue in Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
“I was told that my daughter had been violated… on three occasions in the mortuary,” said Nevres, a social worker from north London.
Azra was one of at least 100 victims of Fuller, an electrical maintenance manager at hospitals who abused female corpses whose ages ranged from a nine-year-old girl to a 100-year-old woman.
Ahead of his trial, he admitted sexually abusing bodies in two hospital morgues in Kent over 12 years and investigators believe there could be hundreds of victims.
Fuller, 67, murdered Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in Tunbridge Wells in 1987 in what was dubbed the “bedsit murders” which became one of the UK’s longest unsolved double homicide.
He previously admitted killing the women subject to “diminished responsibility” but yesterday changed his plea to guilty on the fourth day of his murder trial at Maidstone Crown Court.
Nevres
told Sky News she could not imagine what bad news the police could possibly have when family liaison officers knocked on the door. Her daughter had died a year ago and she had no other family.
Hearing that her daughter’s body had been raped while in the hospital morgue was like hearing the same terrible news all over again.
“What does one think? How do you comprehend such a thing?” she said.
The first attack happened hours before Nevres visited the morgue to say goodbye to her daughter, and the second assault happened soon after she left.
“I had spent two hours in the mortuary sleeping with her. And that gave me some sort of comfort. Little did I know that my daughter had been violated prior to that day and the evening of that day,” she told family friend and Sky News home editor Jason Farrell.
“So, whilst I’m stroking my daughter’s hair, sleeping on her hair, a man had… crawled all over her skin… And there’s me kissing and cuddling and saying my last goodbyes.
“And that is quite awful, quite awful, however, it is not Azra’s shame. It is not my shame.
“Like women who are raped around the world they have a voice, Azra has a voice – I am speaking out for my daughter.”
Azra, 24, died from trauma with a dislocated arm, cracked ribs and a split pelvis after falling from a bridge after a car crash.
Mr Farrell was a friend of Azra and her mother, and wrote a tribute to her when she died in the tragic accident last year.
tographing their names on the mortuary record log and their hospital identity tags.
He recorded the abuse on a small digital camera and uploaded the footage onto his home computer, storing it in files often titled with the victim’s name.
Police say they will never know exactly how many women and girls have been violated but there is evidence of sexual activity with at least 100 female corpses, 81 of whom have been identified.