Ministers resist calls for inquiry into hospital worker’s attacks on female corpses

Victim's mother calls for resignation of health boss as families consider suing over assaults on loved ones

Senior ministers are resisting calls for an immediate independent inquiry into how a hospital worker was able to attack at least 100 female corpses in mortuaries, as Kent police said they had been inundated with over 200 calls from those fearing
their loved ones may have been attacked after their death.

Details of David Fuller's unprecedented scale of offending emerged on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to murdering two women in 1987 in Kent. He had also used his job as a hospital electrician to enter the mortuary of a Tunbridge Wells hospital, where over 12 years he raped and sexually abused about 100 corpses ranging from children to the elderly.