Following the killings in 2017, relatives of victims were entitled to compensation. But just how much, it turned out, would vary by as much as hundreds of thousands of pounds. Why is one life worth more than another?
Sara Zelenak was brutally unlucky. Her parents, Mark and Julie, can reel off all the different reasons why she shouldn’t have been walking down the pavement at the junction of London Bridge and Borough High Street 19 seconds after 10.07pm on 3 June 2017.
“She was never going to be in London,” Mark says, wide-eyed. “She was going to be an au pair in Milan.”
