A British electrician has admitted Thursday the murder of two women and dozens of sexual harassment of corpses in morgues, a unique case in British judicial history.

David Fuller

, 67, who worked as an electrician in several hospitals, was arrested in late 2020 after DNA tests of a new type and admitted at his trial this Thursday the murder of two women aged 20 and 25 years in 1987 in Kent .

He is accused of having sexually assaulted them.

Before the trial, he had pleaded guilty to 51 other offenses, including 44 related to

post-mortem

harassment

, but investigators estimate there were at least 99 cases, 78 of which were identified, ranging from the bodies of girls to octogenarians.

Hard drives appeared in the raids on his home "revealing evidence of prolific sexual offenses of a type that no

UK

court

had seen before," the UK prosecutor's office said in a statement.

"Between 2008 and 2020, Fuller filmed and photographed himself sexually abusing the bodies of dozens of women and girls in two

Tunbridge Wells hospital

morgues

" in

Kent

"that he had access to through his work as a maintenance supervisor." , says the statement.

The charges against him are "unprecedented in British legal history," said

Libby Clarck

of the CPS, who believes the man would have continued to act if he had not been arrested.

The Minister of Health,

Sajid Javid

, has been "deeply shocked by the unspeakable nature" of what happened and called for a review of access to funeral homes and

post-mortem

activities

, as well as current legislation.

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