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 killed in a dog attack at an equipment hire property at Greenbank, south of Brisbane .

His devastated fiancee Toni Baird attended an inquest among family and friends seeking closure almost three years later,

“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 on Monday.

Loved ones packed the court for the inquest’s first day, with a photo of a smiling Minion sitting on coroner Amanda Bain’s desk.

“They really do hope t

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