11½ years jail for man who bashed, chased council inspectors over shed dispute

By Adam Cooper
Updated October 24 2016 - 6:08pm, first published 5:29pm
Building surveyor Matthew Patterson outside court in Melbourne with his wife Carolyn on Monday. The court heard that Jonas Black had developed a brooding hostility towards Mr Patterson. Photo: Julian Drape
Building surveyor Matthew Patterson outside court in Melbourne with his wife Carolyn on Monday. The court heard that Jonas Black had developed a brooding hostility towards Mr Patterson. Photo: Julian Drape

Running for their lives through dense bush, nursing head injuries and pursued by an attacker they believed was armed was not what a pair of council inspectors had been expecting when they'd turned up at a rural property to look at some sheds.

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