'I would just get on top of them and pull my pants down' – the sick people who have sex with corpses

But Khurum Shazada, 23, who broke into a Co-op undertakers, is far from the only one to have violated a dead body.

The sick crime – known as necrophilia – involves an obsession with, and usually sexual attraction to, the dead.

Disturbingly, it's a fantasy that is a lot more common than you may expect.

From the morgue attendant who admitted having sex with 100 corpses to the hospital worker who violated a patient hours after her death, Sun Online lifts the lid on this sick sexual taboo.

Sex with a hospital patient – hours after their death

In August hospital security guard Cameron Wright, 23, was charged with allegedly having sex with a patient's corpse, just hours after she'd died.

Wright was caught in a storage room with 37-year-old April Parham's body, who was due to donate her organs after suffering a heart attack.

April’s dad James Parham said: "After you pass, we think finally she’s not suffering, she’s not hurting no more and to find out this. It’s devastating. It hurts."

Psychotherapist Noel McDermott tells Sun Online: “Necrophilia is in a group of disorders where a person has sexual arousal to atypical people, objects or situations.  

"The disorder is diagnosed when these interests are intense or persistent, or when they cause or have the potential to cause harm to others."

Sexual penetration of a corpse was made illegal in the UK in 2003 under the Sexual Offences Act, and carries a maximum term of two years' imprisonment.

Raped while in a coma

Earlier this month it was claimed Edgardo Nieves, from Wisconsin, confessed to drugging a woman into a coma for days so he could rape her while pretending she was dead.

On November 29 Edgardo turned himself in to police, and admitted to using an unspecified drug to render the woman unconscious before raping her on several occasions dating back to late August.

The police report says it was because "it was his fetish to have sex with unconscious or dead people".

However the 20-year-old – who faces trial in January – later denied all charges, including two counts of second-degree sexual assault, false imprisonment and administering a dangerous or stupefying drug.

Semen found on nearly-decapitated victim

In another high profile case, morgue attendant Kenneth Douglas, then 60, admitted to having sex with up to 100 corpses between 1976 and 1992 in Ohio, USA.

"I would just get on top of them and pull my pants down," he told a court in a video.

He added: "If I hadn't had anything to drink when I went into work, it wouldn't happen. I would go do crack and go in and drink and go in."

His wife claimed she had alerted a supervisor, after her husband kept returning home smelling like "alcohol and sex."

Sex expert Lianne Young of House of Ardent tells Sun Online: "The reason why he may have done this is to have a sense of no fear, and he could have acted on his sexual choices with more of a sense of bravado."

His sick crimes weren't discovered until 2008, when his semen was found on 19-year-old murder victim Karen Range, who had been nearly decapitated.

In 2012 he also admitted having sex with the bodies of two other women – six-month pregnant Charlene Appling, 23, who had been strangled to death, and April Hicks, 24, who'd fallen out a third-story window.

'I love the smell of slight decomposition'

While widely unspoken about, for those harbouring secret desires to have sexual relations with corpses, a quick Google search will bring up several internet forums, where people have offered an insight into necrophilia.

One 25-year-old "necrophile" admits: "I love the smell of slight decomposition, embalming fluids, and everything really about death."

"This is my first step in coming out of the coffin, as I like to call it.

"I don't have the courage to actually sleep with a corpse, but I would like to know what others like myself have done to curb that urge."

To which another user replied: "The most sure way to keep it from 'ruining' your life is to avoid all triggers related to it, and to avoid any situation where you could have a chance to act on your feelings (like situations where you would be alone with a corpse you're attracted to)."

One user asks if anyone has ever had sex with a dead body – and if using a condom is advised.

"[Wearing a condom] is recommended, for reasons that should be obvious," another chatroom user responds. 

It is estimated that only 15 per cent of necrophiliacs are actually attracted to dead bodies, however.

Sex expert Lianne says: "Necrophilia has been around for hundreds of years. It usually occurs in people who have low self-esteem or a fear of rejection.

"By having sex with a dead person, necrophiliacs can fulfil their fantasies without being rejected and they can be completely in charge.

"Although it is morally taboo, being into necrophilia doesn't necessarily mean that you are a psychopath, it usually stems from being concerned about knock-backs or having the anxiety of being refused."

Sexual attraction to corpses doesn't always involve real dead bodies, Lianne explains.

Some people get their kicks by asking partners to "wear white make up and play dead" during sex sessions.

"It is a public taboo due to the moral aspect of it," she says.

"But behind closed doors there are people out there who choose to play out their fantasies of people who aren't able to talk back."

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