They were killed in the London Bridge terror attack, seconds apart. So why did their families get wildly different payouts?

Police at the scene of the London Bridge attack. Photograph: Rob Pinney/LNP

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.”