Parents of London terror attack victim Sara Zelenak launch charity in her name

One year on from the deadly terrorist attack at London Bridge, the parents of Australian victim Sara Zelenak are setting up a charity in her name.
 
At 10pm on 3 June 2017, three men drove into pedestrians before stabbing people with knives in the popular dining precinct of Borough Market, leaving eight dead and 48 injured.
 
Sara, 21, was walking across the bridge with a friend when the rampage began. Despite the efforts of passers-by to draw the attackers away from her, she was killed.

She had moved to Europe from Brisbane three months earlier with the dream of working as an au pair and travelling for five months. 

“Sara had a passion for life and was filled with excitement for her new adventures overseas,” the ‘About’ section of the website reads.

“We were also excited about visiting her in Europe and had planned to meet her in Paris at the end of June to climb the Eiffel Tower, eat cheese and croissants ... sadly, this never happened." 

“It is hard to put into words how unbelievably traumatic, shocking, painful and unfair it has been losing Sara,” they write on the website. 

“As parents, we don’t think we will ever be able to come to terms with losing our child.

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"We want to honour Sara’s life and give purpose to her loss by helping others who have, like us, suffered traumatic grief. We have motivation to find a greater good from what has happened."

Sara’s best friend, Sam Hetherington, has shared her own experience of grief in an article for Sky News.

“It has been a very tough year. There's a gap close beside me where Sara always stood that is so noticeable and unfillable everyday,” Hetherington says.

Hetherington says she now wants to live her life in the way her beloved friend would have wanted her to.
 
“I try my best to do all the things I know she would be cheering me on to do because in those moments of life is when I most think about her, and that always makes me smile, like she always did,” she writes.
 
“I remember her as a ball of fun, the kind of friend that makes you skip out on assignments to go out on the town because she knows you'd remember that more in 10 years than a silly university subject.”