A mom was arrested after she brought a knife to a police station hoping to stab the man who raped her daughter's corpse

• A British mom whose dead daughter was raped said she tried to get revenge on the perpatrator.
• Nevres Kemal told the Daily Mail she stormed a police station hoping to find David Fuller.

When Nevres Kemal learned that her daughter's corpse had been raped by 67-year-old David Fuller in a hospital morgue in Kent, England, she said she grabbed a kitchen knife and ran to a police station where she thought he was being held.

Kemal arrived at Colindale police station in North London in early October hoping to "punish" Fuller, she told the Daily Mail.

"If I'd found him, I'm 99.99% sure I'd have put that knife straight through his heart because he'd put a knife through mine," Kemal told the media outlet.

Fuller was in fact not at the police station at all, and it is not clear why Kemal thought he would be. She described being in an uncontrollable rage, so frantic that police thought she needed psychiatric help.

After she entered the station with a knife, "eight or nine" police officers handcuffed her and later arrested her, she said.

In a statement, London's Metropolitan Police confirmed details of the incident to Insider.

"On Friday, 8 October police stopped a vehicle close to Colindale Police Station after receiving intelligence that the occupants were in possession of a knife," the statement said.

"A man and woman were arrested; after being interviewed in custody both were released under investigation while enquiries progressed."

The police statement said that neither would face further action after being released.

Kemal was enraged, she said, after having learned that her late daughter, Azra, was among at least 99 corpses Fuller defiled while working at hospitals over 12 years.

The news was delivered to Kemal last month as part of a 1.5 million-pound (about $2 million) plan to draft 150 police-family liaison officers tasked with visiting the families of victims in Kent, Sussex, and Essex, in southeast England.

Police say that officers have now spoken to all the families of the 81 victims who have been identified, according to the Daily Mail, but noted that hundreds of more unidentified corpses might have been defiled.

Fuller's youngest victim was a child, age 9, and his oldest victim was a 100-year-old woman, Sky News reported.

Disturbing details are emerging about Fuller's offenses, which also included the 1987 murders of two women. The Sun reported that he trawled social media for photos of his victims, including those of Kemal's daughter.

An unnamed nurse, who said she was in a relationship with Fuller for two years, told the Sunday Mirror that she was also horrified by the revelations. She described how she originally thought of him as an "ordinary, quiet man" and a "perfect gentleman."

"To think I'm associated with someone who did something so terrible is awful. I'm very lucky he didn't kill me," she told the media outlet.

The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has commissioned an independent investigation into how Fuller was able to get away with his crimes.

The UK's health secretary, Sajid Javid, told the BBC that the NHS has written to all trusts asking that mortuary access and postmortem activities be reviewed.

Several British lawmakers, including Greg Clark, a member of Parliament who represents the constituency that contains the hospital where Fuller worked, have called for a public inquiry into how the abuse was allowed to happen.

Editor's note: This post was updated on November 8 to make clear that David Fuller was not being held in Colindale police station when Nevres Kemal went there, and to add comment from the police.