THE wife of double murderer David Fuller said she is "too upset to even think" about his crimes, and left him shortly after he was arrested for two murders.

Mala Fuller, 50, told MailOnline she had lived with Fuller for 20 years at their home in Heathfield, East Sussex, but moved out after he was arrested for killing Wendy Knell, 25, and Caroline Pierce, 20 in December last year.

The hospital electrician killed the young women in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1987, and admitted the offences this week – more than three decades later.

Fuller’s third wife, who MailOnline said is from Trinidad, said: “I’m not with him.

“I couldn’t carry on in that relationship.

“I’m too upset to even think about what was going on, I couldn’t live with it.

“You can’t imagine how distraught I am.”

Fuller also previously admitted to 51 other offences, including 44 charges relating to 78 identified victims in mortuaries where he was working as an electrician.

They include the sexual penetration of a corpse, possessing an extreme pornographic image involving sexual interference with a corpse and taking indecent images of children.

Fuller filmed himself carrying out the attacks at mortuaries inside the now closed Kent and Sussex Hospital and the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, in Pembury, where he worked in electrical maintenance roles since 1989.

Identified victims included three children under the age of 18 and others older than 85 between 2008 and November 2020, and investigators have said there are likely to be more.

An independent review at the trust where Fuller worked is under way, but eight MPs who represent constituencies in the surrounding areas are calling for a public inquiry into how he was able to carry out the attacks for so long.

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