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Mortuary crimes committed by necrophiliac killer David Fuller, who abused at least 100 dead women and girls, could be repeated, an inquiry has found.
Fuller was jailed in 2021 after a trial which heard he had filmed himself abusing female bodies at two Kent hospital mortuaries over 12 years.
The final report of an inquiry sparked by his crimes found that "current arrangements for the regulation and oversight of the care of people after death are partial, ineffective and in significant areas completely absent".
Inquiry chair Sir Jonathan Michael said: "Despite the lack of legal status for the deceased, we all expect our loved ones, and indeed ourselves, to be looked after with the same security and dignity after death as whilst alive."
The maintenance worker, from Heathfield, East Sussex, sexually abused the bodies of more than 100 women and girls aged between nine and 100 while employed at the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital and the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, in Pembury, between 2005 and 2020.
Fuller was given two whole-life sentences in 2021 for murdering Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce and jailed for a total of 16 years for abusing corpses, meaning he will die in prison.
