Obituary: Monika Suchocka

Ms Suchoka played the piano and sang in a choir

Throwing herself into her new life in London, Monika Suchocka had found a job and joined a choir.

The 23-year-old trainee accountant had only arrived from Poland two months before the bombings.

She lived in Archway with two other Polish women and on the morning of 7 July was on her way to work at an accountancy firm in West Kensington.

The last contact she had with anyone was at 0840 BST, when she sent a text message to a colleague to say she was having problems on the Northern Line and would get a bus.

Friends distributed posters of her in an attempt to track her down, aware she may have got on the Number 30 bus which was ripped apart in Tavistock Square.

But police said they believe she was killed on the Piccadilly Line Tube travelling to Russell Square.

Love of music

Growing up in Dabrowka Malborska, northern Poland, Ms Suchocka did well at school and completed a masters degree at the Academy of Economics in Poznan.

Like many other Poles, she came to the UK after her country joined the European Union.

Described by friends as generous and intelligent, she continued to indulge her love of music after settling into her new life in London, by playing the piano and joining a choir.

Friend Tracy Purdon said: "This was her first time in London and she was really enjoying the excitement of it all."

Ms Suchocka's parents and her brother live in Poland and three Metropolitan Police officers brought her ashes back to her homeland.