Australian woman Julie Wallace has told an inquest in the UK how 'every sliding door slid' for her daughter Sara Zelenak to be murdered in the London Bridge terror attacks two years ago.
The 21-year-old, fellow Australian Kirsty Boden and six others died when Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba used a van to run down people on the bridge before stabbing others with kitchen knives in nearby Borough Market on the night of June 3, 2017.
Ms Wallace told an inquest at the Old Bailey in London on Tuesday that Ms Zelenak had been looking forward to meeting her and her stepfather Mark Wallace in Paris before she was killed.
'Every phone call would end with "meet you in Paris, can't wait to see you guys, miss you so much",' she said.
But there was to be no Paris rendezvous as a chain of events led to her daughter's stabbing death.
'On that fatal night, every sliding door slid for Sara to be in harm's way,' Ms Wallace said.
Australian Sara Zelenak was rushing towards a crashed van on London Bridge in 2017, unaware a terrorist attack was unfolding
She said her daughter was meant to be working that night but when she wasn't needed she and a friend decided to go to a rooftop bar but couldn't find it.
They then decided to go to Soho but at the last minute went to The Borough Market instead because it was close to where they were meeting friends after a televised rugby match.
'At 10pm Sara's phone rang and her friend said "I've finished at the rugby" and so she left her safe haven at the Grind hotel and walked out into a terrorist attack and was stabbed to death,' Ms Wallace said.
England and Wales Chief Coroner Mark Lucraft QC described how Ms Zelenak, a live-in au pair, had been walking down a nearby street with her friend when they heard the sound of the crash.
Unknown to her the three men had
