A man who murdered his housemate and dumped her body in Sydney bushland has had his manifestly inadequate jail term increased by appeal court judges.
Shuo Dong, then 21, was jailed in September for 18 years with a non-parole period of 13 years and six months after pleading guilty to murdering Qi Yu, 28, who disappeared from her Campsie unit in June 2018.
But the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal on Friday allowed a crown appeal and increased his term to 21 years with a non-parole period of 15 years and eight months.
The three judges accepted that Acting Justice Peter Hidden had failed to take into account the protection of the community and had imposed a manifestly inadequate term.