The mother of Australian nanny Sara Zelenak has sat in a London court to hear how her daughter was killed in the London Bridge terror attack at the start of inquests into the deadly rampage.
Julie Wallace, with her partner Mark Wallace by her side, was in attendance as Coroner Andrew Harris opened and adjourned inquests at the Southwark Coroner's Court on Tuesday for five victims of the attack.
"All of our thoughts and condolences are with you at this terrible time, one of the most horrible things is for parents to be in court hearing the details of a death, particularly a violent one, of their children," he told them.
Zelenak, 21, and South Australian woman Kirsty Boden, 28, were among the eight people killed on June 3, when three attackers ploughed into pedestrians with a white van before stabbing revellers in Borough Market.
Details of the frenzied knife attacks on unarmed victims in the London Bridge terror attack were set out at the inquests into their deaths.