A man who killed his new housemate and stuffed her body into a wheelie bin just weeks after moving into her home has been jailed for seven years for the “extremely callous act”.

Family and friends of slain teacher Annette Brennan waited outside the Supreme Court to face her killer, who had refused to board the prison bus.

Investigators believe Annette Brennan’s body was inside a bin that was picked up outside a Coolaroo property. Credit: Nine News

It was the second time Stephen Fleming, 48, had tried to avoid Brennan’s loved ones after he killed her and bundled her body into a green waste bin outside her home in Hilgay Street, Coolaroo, in Melbourne’s north.

The pair had lived together for only a few weeks after the English tutor advertised two spare rooms on the internet.

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