‘My daughter was violated’: Mother of woman raped in mortuary by necrophile David Fuller speaks out
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adminWhen police family liaison officers knocked on the door, they looked visibly distressed.
Nevres Kemal, a social worker from north London, couldn’t imagine what bad news they could possibly have. Her only daughter had died just over a year ago, she didn’t have any other family.
The scene was similar to when, in July 2020, Nevres had been told her beloved Azra had fallen from a bridge in Kent suffering fatal injuries. She said what followed was like hearing the same terrible news all over again.
Warning: Contains descriptions that some readers may find distressing
The officers explained how Azra’s dead body had been raped by a man while she’d been in the morgue in Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
Azra Kemal, 24, who died in Kent. Twitter: @jasonfarrellsky
It would emerge that Azra was one of at least 100 victims of a prolific offender, David Fuller, who had worked in the hospital trust as an electrical maintenance manager and got away with his crimes for years.
The victims ranged in age from nine to 100 years old.
Azra, 24, had died from trauma, with a dislocated arm, cracked ribs and a pelvis that was split in half. The detail you are about to read, of what happened to her after she died, is incredibly upsetting, but Nevres wants people to know.
‘My daughter was violated hours after I left’
“I was told that my daughter had been violated… on three occasions in the mortuary,” said Nevres.
“What does one think? How do you comprehend such a thing?”
The first attack on Azra happened only hours before Nevres herself had come to say farewell to her daughter in the mortuary – and it happened again hours after she left.
Nevres told me: “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.
“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.”
A prolific offender, Fuller assaulted hundreds of victims
She added: “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.”
The horrific detail of this case isn’t the only reason why this was perhaps the hardest interview I’ve ever done.
Azra and I were friends
She was my fixer on several stories I worked on at Sky News, helping me gain interviews with people from difficult backgrounds including drug mules and dealers. I wrote a tribute to her when she died. I’ve also been friends with her mother, Nevres, for over a decade.
Azra Kemal with Sky News home editor Jason Farrell
Nevres was told that Fuller researched Azra online, he may well have read my tribute. He would photograph his victims’ names on the mortuary record log and sometimes their identity tags.
He later told police that he only researched victims after the offending, rather than before. However, in relation to one name on his browser history, he couldn’t explain why he had searched for her when, in the event, her body had been taken to a different morgue.
Fuller used a compact digital camera to film his crimes. He would then upload the videos to his home computer, storing the footage in digital folders that he would sometimes title with the victim’s name.
Officers who searched his home found a homemade box had been attached to the back of drawers within a cupboard. Inside the box were four hard drives with five terabytes of data storage.
Fuller first assaulted Azra for sixteen minutes
The court in Maidstone was told they contained “a library of unimaginable sexual depravity,” all filmed in the mortuaries of the two hospitals at which he worked, first the Kent and Sussex Hospital, where he worked from 1989, and then the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, to which he moved in 2010.
Fuller was brazen
He first assaulted Azra for sixteen minutes on 20 July 2020, a decade after he’d first arrived in the hospital. The second time was the next day when Nevres visited – that evening he was with Azra for twenty-three minutes. Two days later he came back to abuse her again for thirty-five minutes.
These assaults didn’t happen in the dead of night – the first occasion was at 4.50pm and the second 9.20pm, the third, 6.15pm.
Fuller would carry items that gave him a ‘legitimate reason’ to enter the mortuary
“He seemed very confident, to spend so much time with Azra,” said Nevres. “Late afternoon, early evening – he was very brazen.”
To understand how this could happen, Nevres demanded a meeting with the senior staff of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, which they agreed to in mid-October.
She discovered that as an electrical maintenance worker he had some legitimate reasons to access the mortuary, and this meant he had his own swipe card.
The mortuary had five staff, who tended to work from 8am to 4pm. Fuller’s shifts were 11am to 7pm. So, his attacks took place during that window at the latter part of his shift.
Of course, hospital porters could come down to the mortuary with new bodies at any time of the day. However, Fuller had worked out that no one came into the separate post-mortem room out of hours. The fridge doors in the centre of the mortuary open onto both rooms.
Nevres feels security at the hospital was lax
He was able to enter the post-mortem area through the clinical office. The configuration of the rooms was such that he could get in and leave unnoticed by any porter who happened to enter the mortuary on the other side of the fridges, while he was there.
No CCTV in the post-mortem room
Unlike other areas of the mortuary, there was no CCTV in the post-mortem room, which is usual practice in many hospitals to preserve the dignity of patients during post-mortem. So he could open the fridge doors to access bodies, because, whilst they were locked in the receiving area, they were unlocked in the post-mortem room.
There are CCTV cameras in the corridors leading to the mortuary, and the swipe card system keeps a log of people coming and going in case there is an incident, however, these logs were not checked to see if any staff member was making an unusual number of unnecessary journeys into the area.
David Fuller had a swipe-card for the mortuary because he’d sometimes need to do maintenance work there
“He had entered the morgue and autopsy area thousands of times, not hundreds, thousands,” said Nevres, “and no one ever stopped him or asked what’s this guy doing here?”
“I’m told he was the man to go to. He always made himself available to the mortuary staff. They thought he was a great guy and basically, he groomed them. They became compliant and they never questioned him.”
An NHS trust spokesman told me that Fuller would have had many legitimate reasons to visit the morgue – for example temperature checking the fridges.
The court was told: “CCTV from the mortuary area shows that when on cameras he carried items or performed actions that would afford a legitimate explanation for his presence.”
But Nevres feels security was lax
She told me: “We have swipe cards and cameras for a reason. How could they not have records that are automatically exposed to managerial people at the NHS trust?
“No one checked. It was so simple. He would actually abuse women while porters were bringing in bodies.”
On meeting the Chief Executive of the Trust, Miles Scott, Nevres said her first question was “why are you still here?”
She added: “His response was it’s up to the board and he had the backing of the board, and I told him; ‘the victim’s families are the board – I am the board’.
“I believe he needs to resign,” said Nevres.
“He should ask the victims ‘do you think I’m the best person to be managing this hospital trust?’ If you are truly sorry, you would step aside.”
As a social worker, Nevres blew the whistle on Haringey council over the baby-P scandal in 2007 and said as someone involved in the protection of children she would resign if something like this happened on her watch.
Fuller’s victims ranged in age from 9 to 100 year olds
Since Fuller’s arrest, the trust has asked Sir Jonathan Michael to chair an independent investigation into whether anything more could have been done.
A maximum sentence of a few years
Another thing that has shocked Nevres is the length of sentencing for people who commit this kind of crime. The law attached to Fuller’s crimes is section 70 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 – penetration of a dead body – for which the maximum sentence is two years imprisonment.
He also pleaded guilty to section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 – extreme pornography involving a dead body – which can carry a sentence of three years.
Nevres believes there should be a clearer law of necrophilia with much greater punishment for someone who commits a crime on this scale, similar to the sentencing of a rape victim, which can be between 4 and 19 years for each victim.
She said: “Men and women up and down the country will be appalled by what they are reading. And I remind them that if this was your loved one you would roar with rage – and I am silently roaring and I am beseeching people who make laws to create a law that this becomes an offence and the appropriate sentence is passed down.
“We need to respect the dead and this must never happen again.”
Nevres was already dissatisfied with the investigation by Kent police into her daughter’s death. Azra died after falling through a gap between two sides of the A21 dual carriageway near Tonbridge in Kent.
She and a male passenger had been trying to get help after their car caught fire. Essex police have been investigating whether Kent police did a thorough enough investigation into exactly what happened.
So, Nevres was already distrustful of the authorities and police when they came knocking on her door a second time.
Azra was an extraordinary human
Like her mother, Azra was someone who had strong feelings about injustice and, in particular, the protection of women. She would stand her ground against anyone. Once, after meeting a domestic violence victim, she went around the couple’s house and told the man to get out.
“Azra was an extraordinary human being,” said Nevres.
Azra lived her life ‘to the full’
“She lived for 24 years, but she touched so many people. She was compassionate, warm. An LSE law graduate. She became a beautiful woman and didn’t see any barriers. She was individualistic and smart. She lived life to the full. She was my only child.
“I’ve tried to protect Azra all my life and when she was really helpless, lying there still being raped and abused – she couldn’t scream out, couldn’t call me, she couldn’t call the police.
“But I will ensure her voice is heard and that will be my mission.”
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Upcoming budget will be big – and Starmer has some serious convincing to do as he fights for survival
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Wednesday’s budget is going to big.
It will be big in terms of tax rises, big in terms of setting the course of the economy and public services, and big in terms of political jeopardy for this government.
The chancellor has a lot different groups to try to assuage and a lot at stake.
“There are lots of difference audiences to this budget,” says one senior Labour figure. “The markets will be watching, the public on the cost of living, the party on child poverty and business will want to like the direction in which we are travelling – from what I’ve seen so far, it’s a pretty good package.”
The three core principles underpinning the chancellor’s decisions will be to cut NHS waiting lists, cut national debt and cut the cost of living. There will be no return to austerity and no more increases in government borrowing.
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What flows from that is more investment in the NHS, already the big winner in the 2024 Budget, and tax rises to keep funding public services and help plug gaps in the government’s finances.
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Some of these gaps are beyond Rachel Reeves’ control, such as the decision by the independent fiscal watchdog (the Office for Budget Responsibility) to downgrade the UK’s productivity forecasts – leaving the chancellor with a £20bn gap in the public finances – or the effect of Donald Trump’s tariffs on the global economy.
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Others are self-inflicted, with the chancellor having to find about £7bn to plug her reversals on winter fuel allowance and welfare cuts.
By not pulling the borrowing lever, she hopes to send a message to the markets about stability, and that should help keep down inflation and borrowing costs low, which in turn helps with the cost of living, because inflation and interest rates feed into what we pay for food, for energy, rent and mortgage costs.
That’s what the government is trying to do, but what about the reality when this budget hits?
This is going to be another big Labour budget, where people will be taxed more and the government will spend more.
Only a year ago the chancellor raised a whopping £40bn in taxes and said she wasn’t coming back for more. Now she’s looking to raise more than £30bn.
That the prime minister refused to recommit to his manifesto promise not to raise income tax, VAT or national insurance on working at the G20 in South Africa days ahead of the budget is instructive: this week we could see the government announce manifesto-breaking tax rises that will leave millions paying more.
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The biggest tax lever, raising income tax rates, was going to be pulled but has now been put back in neutral after the official forecasts came in slightly better than expected, and Downing Street thought again about being the first government in 50 years to raise the income tax rate.
On the one hand, this measure would have been a very clean and clear way of raising £20bn of tax. On the other, there was a view from some in government that the PM and his chancellor would never recover from such a clear breach of trust, with a fair few MPs comparing it to the tuition fees U-turn that torpedoed Nick Clegg’s Lib Dems in the 2015 General Election.
Instead, the biggest revenue in the budget will be another two-year freeze on income tax thresholds until 2030.
This is the very thing that Reeves promised she would not do at the last budget in 2024 because “freezing the thresholds will hurt working people” and “take more money out of their payslips”. This week those words will come back to haunt the chancellor.
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Two-child cap big headline grabber
There will also be more spending and the biggest headline grabber will be the decision to lift the two-child benefit cap.
This was something the PM refused to commit to in the Labour manifesto, because it was one of the things he said he couldn’t afford to do if he wanted to keep taxes low for working people.
But on Wednesday, the government will announce its spending £3bn-a-year to lift that cap. Labour MPs will like it, polling suggests the public will not.
What we are going to get on Wednesday is another big tax and spend Labour budget on top of the last.
For the Conservatives, it draws clear dividing lines to take Labour on. They will argue that this is the “same old Labour”, taxing more to spend more, and more with no cuts to public spending.
Having retreated on welfare savings in the summer, to then add more to the welfare bill by lifting the two-child cap is a gift for Labour’s opponents and they will hammer the party on the size of the benefits bill, where the cost of support people with long-term health conditions is set to rise from £65bn-a-year to a staggering £100bn by 2029-30.
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There is also a real risk of blow-up in this budget as the chancellor unveils a raft of revenue measures to find that £30bn.
There could be a mansion tax for those living in more expensive homes, a gambling tax, a tourism tax, a milkshake tax.
Ministers are fearful that one of these more modest revenue-raising measures becomes politically massive and blows up.
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This is what happened to George Osborne in 2012 when he announced plans to put 20% of VAT on hot food sold in bakeries and supermarkets. The plan quickly became an attack on the working man’s lunch from out-of-touch Tories and the “pasty tax” was ditched two months later.
And what about the voters? Big tax and spend budgets are the opposite of what Sir Keir Starmer promised the country when he was seeking election. His administration was not going to be another Labour tax and spend government but instead invest in infrastructure to turbocharge growth to help pay for better services and improve people’s everyday lives.
Seventeen months in, the government doesn’t seem to be doing things differently. A year ago, it embarked on the biggest tax-raising budget in a generation, and this week, it goes back on its word and lifts taxes for working people. It creates a big trust deficit.
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There are those in Labour who will read this and point to worse-than-expected government finances, global headwinds and the productivity downgrades as reasons for tax raising.
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The PM told me at the G7 summit in Canada in June that one of his regrets of his first year wasn’t “we haven’t always told our story as well as we should”.
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You will also hear more about the NHS, as the waiting lists for people in need of non-urgent care within 18 weeks remain stubbornly high. It stood at 7.6m in July 2024 and was at 7.4m at the end of September. The government will talk on Wednesday about how it intends to drive those waits down.
But there is another story from the last 18 months too: Labour said the last budget was a “once in a parliament” tax-raising moment, now it’s coming back for more. Labour said in the election it would protect working people and couldn’t afford to lift the two child-benefit cap, and this week could see both those promises broken.
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Labour flip-flopped on winter fuel allowance and on benefit cuts, and is now raising your taxes.
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Royal Navy intercepts Russian warship and tanker
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A Royal Navy patrol ship has intercepted two Russian vessels off the UK coast, the Ministry of Defence has said.
It comes after Defence Secretary John Healey announced last Wednesday that lasers from Russian spy ship the Yantar were directed at RAF pilots tracking it, in an attempt to disrupt the monitoring.
The MoD said on Sunday that in a “round-the-clock shadowing operation”, the Royal Navy ship HMS Severn has intercepted Russian warship RFN Stoikiy and tanker Yelnya off the UK coast in the past fortnight.
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The Russian vessels sailed through the Dover Strait and westward through the English Channel, the MoD said.
HMS Severn later handed over monitoring duties to a NATO ally off the coast of Brittany, France, it said, but continued to watch from a distance and remained ready to respond to any unexpected activity.
The ministry added that the UK’s armed forces are on patrol “from the English Channel to the High North” amid increased Russian activity threatening UK waters.
Last week, Russia accused the British government of “provocative statements” after the defence secretary warned the Yantar was nearing the UK.
At a news conference in Downing Street on Wednesday, Mr Healey said the spy ship was on the edge of British waters north of Scotland, having entered wider UK waters over the last few weeks.
He said it was the second time this year the Yantar had been deployed off the UK coast and he claimed it was “designed for gathering intelligence and mapping our undersea cables”.
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Mr Healey said the ship had “directed lasers” at pilots of a P-8 surveillance aircraft monitoring its activities – a Russian action he deemed “deeply dangerous”.
In a clear message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the defence secretary said: “We see you. We know what you are doing. And we are ready.”
The ministry said while tracking the Yantar, Royal Navy frigate HMS Somerset and other civilian ships in the area “experienced GPS jamming in a further demonstration of unprofessional behaviour, intended to be disruptive and a nuisance”.
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Russia’s UK embassy dismissed the accusations and insisted the Yantar is a research ship in international waters.
The defence secretary also repeated government plans to increase defence spending and work with NATO allies to bolster European security.
And he stressed how plans to buy weapons and build arms factories will create jobs and economic growth.
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A report by a group of MPs, also released on Wednesday, underlined the scale of the challenge the UK faces.
It accused the government of lacking a national plan to defend itself from attack.
The Defence Select Committee also warned that Mr Healey, the prime minister and the rest of the cabinet are moving at a “glacial” pace to fix the issue and are failing to launch a “national conversation on defence and security” – something Sir Keir Starmer had promised last year.
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The UK has seen a 30% increase in Russian vessels threatening UK waters in the past two years, according to the MoD.
But the ministry maintained the UK has a wide range of military options at its disposal to keep UK waters safe.
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They are conducting surveillance operations as part of NATO’s collective defence, patrolling for Russian ships and submarines in the North Atlantic and Arctic.
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Ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans for Aston Villa game ‘based on false hooligan claims’
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West Midlands Police has defended the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending an Aston Villa match after it was claimed that false intelligence was used.
Supporters of the Israeli club were barred from the Europa League fixture at Villa Park on 6 November.
West Midlands Police chief superintendent Tom Joyce told Sky News before the game that a “section” of Maccabi’s fanbase engaged in “quite significant levels of hooliganism”.
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According to The Sunday Times, West Midlands Police claimed in a confidential dossier that when Maccabi played Ajax in Amsterdam last year, Israeli fans threw “innocent members of the public into the river”, and added that between 500 and 600 supporters had “intentionally targeted Muslim communities”.
The report also said 5,000 Dutch police officers had been deployed in response.
However, the Netherlands’ national police force has questioned the claims, reportedly describing information cited by its British officers as “not true” and in some instances obviously inaccurate.
Sebastiaan Meijer, a spokesman for the Amsterdam division, told The Sunday Times that he was “surprised” by allegations in the West Midlands Police report, which had linked 200 travelling supporters to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).
Mr Meijer denied that his force had such intelligence, adding that the claim was meaningless given the country had a policy of conscription.
Also, Mr Meijer said that Amsterdam’s force “does not recognise” the claim in the British report, attributed to Dutch law enforcement, that Israelis were “highly organised, skilled fighters with a serious desire and will to fight with police and opposing groups”.
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The Dutch police added that the only known case of a fan being in the river appeared to involve a Maccabi supporter. While being filmed, he was told he could leave the water on the condition that he said “Free Palestine”.
In an interview with Sky News before the game, West Midlands Police referenced disorder when Maccabi played Ajax in Amsterdam last November.
Mr Joyce said ahead of the Villa Park match: “We’ve had examples where a section of Maccabi fans were targeting people not involved in football matches, and certainly we had an incident in Amsterdam last year which has informed some of our decision-making.
“So it is exclusively a decision we made on the basis of the behaviour of a sub-section of Maccabi fans, but all the reaction that could occur obviously formed part of that as well.”
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Maccabi’s visit to Birmingham came amid heightened tensions due to Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza.
A safety advisory group (SAG) recommended that Maccabi fans should be banned from attending the fixture on the advice of the police. The ban drew criticism, and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said it was the “wrong decision”.
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Following The Sunday Times report, West Midlands Police stood by its “information and intelligence”, adding that the “Maccabi Fanatics… posed a credible threat to safety”.
In a statement to Sky News, the force said: “West Midlands Police’s evaluation was based primarily on information and intelligence and had public safety at its heart.
“We assessed the fixture between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam as having involved significant public disorder.
“We met with Dutch police on 1 October, where information relating to that 2024 fixture was shared with us.
“Informed by information and intelligence, we concluded that Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters – specifically the subgroup known as the Maccabi Fanatics – posed a credible threat to public safety.
“The submission made to the SAG safety advisory group was based on information and intelligence which helped shape understanding of the risks.
“West Midlands Police commissioned a peer review, which was conducted by UKFPU [United Kingdom Policing Unit], the NPCC [National Police Chiefs’ Council] and subject matter experts.
“This review, carried out on 20 October, fully endorsed the force’s approach and decision-making.
“We are satisfied that the policing strategy and operational plan was effective, proportionate, and maintained the city’s reputation as a safe and welcoming place for everyone.”
Sky News has approached Dutch police for comment.
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