The last murder anyone can remember in the town was in 1967, when a man on the Cobham estate shot his wife.

Wallner’s rented house in a small council estate was far removed from the multimillionaire stockbroker lifestyle in wealthier parts of the town.

The house in Hamilton Avenue is opposite a children’s play area and green space and in walking distance of the town’s police station, which opens for a few hours each week.

A busy alleyway passes one house away from number 14, where hundreds of people would have walked by the wheelie bin and, in the later days, noticed the stench.

Several neighbours were called upon to give written statements used in the Old Bailey trial.

One person who lives on the estate, but asked not to be named, said: “We just want to forget about it.

"The neighbours said hopefully everyone will forget about it and the people who have bought the house can get on with their lives too.”