I’ve written on a number of occasions on here about the failings of the UK National Health Service (NHS) and the piss poor service and healthcare that it dishes out to those who unfortunately have need of the NHS’s services. I’ve chronicled the babies that have been killed or damaged by NHS incompetence along with copious tales of other patients who have been less than happy with what the NHS’s fans laughably call ‘the envy of the world’.

Now it seems that not even the dead are safe from predators in the NHS. An inquiry has concluded into management failings in a Kent NHS hospital which employed a man who was eventually convicted of a double murder and allowed him to have unrestricted access to the hospital’s mortuary. This murderous pervert used his access to the mortuary to assault and interfere with dead bodies that were being stored there and although this pervert’s activities only came to light following his conviction for murder, it’s likely that this predator might have been caught earlier had the NHS management been more ‘curious’ about what was going on in their hospital and what their staff were up to.

The BBC said:

Mortuary abuser David Fuller was able to offend without being caught because of “serious failings” at the hospitals where he worked, an inquiry has found.

Between 2007 and 2020, Fuller abused the bodies of at least 101 women and girls in Kent hospitals.

The inquiry’s chair, Sir Jonathan Michael, said “there were missed opportunities to question Fuller’s working practices”.

The report has made 17 recommendations to prevent “similar atrocities”.

These include installing CCTV cameras in mortuaries, ensuring non-mortuary staff are always accompanied and that bodies are not left out of fridges overnight.

Fuller was jailed in 2021 for murdering Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce and given a total of 16 years for abusing corpses, meaning he will die in prison.

Sir Jonathan said he was conscious that Fuller’s crimes “had caused shock and horror across our country and beyond”.

As well as failures of management at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, he said there had been a “failure to follow standard policies and procedures, together with a persistent lack of curiosity”.

“The senior management of the trust were aware of problems in the running of the mortuary from as early as 2008. But there is little evidence that effective action was taken to remedy these,” he said.

“Had the measures that I am recommending been in place when Fuller was working at the trust, I firmly believe his offending could have been prevented.

Yet again we have NHS management failures that have resulted in disgusting outcomes. The management were warned that there were problems in the way that their hospital’s mortuary was being run but did nothing to improve the situation. The nonce Fuller was, because of bad management of the hospital mortuary, given access to the mortuary where he carried out unspeakable assaults on corpses ranging from children to centenarians. Maybe if the hospital had had proper management of its facilities then it is quite possible that either Fuller would have been deterred from carrying out his necrophiliac perversions or he might have been caught earlier than he was and he would have been convicted of the double murders earlier than he was.

The NHS is a place where you are not even safe from abuse once you are dead and that is really nothing to clap about.