Two notoriously aggressive guard dogs menaced a worker days before mauling a meter reader to death at a remote property, an inquest has been told.

Kane Minion, 42, was working for Energy Queensland around Christmas in 2022 when he was fatally attacked at an equipment hire property at Greenbank, south of Brisbane.

Almost three years later, his devastated fiancee Toni Baird, family and friends attended an inquest seeking closure.

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"They have been looking for answers for a very long time now ... hopefully, this marks the beginning of the end," Baird's lawyer Travis Schultz said outside Southport's Coroners Court today.

Loved ones packed the court for the inquest's first day, with a photo of a smiling Minion featuring on coroner Amanda

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