Nurse is found dead with her daughter, two
A NURSE hailed as an NHS hero during the pandemic has been f ound dead with her two-year-old daughter.
Police and paramedics discovered the bodies of Shiwangi Bagoan, 25, and her toddler Zia at their £400,000 flat.
Detectives said they did not believe anyone else was involved, raising the prospect that i t was a murder-suicide.
Miss Bagoan is understood to have worked at University College Hospital in central London.
This year she was among medics to leave their famil i es and stay i n hotel accommodation at the height of the coronavirus crisis. Raul Labrador, who manages t he Euston Square Hotel, said she had stayed there f or a f ew weeks and he was shocked to hear of her death.
He added: ‘I remember her unusual name, she was one of the NHS heroes staying here. She was sporty, she liked to run, and she would talk about her daughter.’
Miss Bagoan, who was not born in the UK and is understood to have south Asian heritage, lived with her mother at her fourthfloor newbuild home in Hounslow, west London.
Neighbours said an older woman and a child aged seven or eight l eft the property soon after the discovery of the bodies on Monday afternoon.
A close friend said: ‘I only saw her last week and she seemed fine. She’d bought both her and her daughter new bikes which cost quite a lot of money.
‘Shiwangi lived with her mother and her daughter. She didn’t have a partner as far as I’m aware. She doted on little Zia. They used to come over to mine to play with my sons.
‘She was a lovely lady, a good friend of mine and I’m just devastated. I cannot believe she would hurt Zia nor take her own life.’
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: ‘Officers do not currently believe anyone else was involved.’
In 2017, Miss Bagoan got into trouble after being caught stealing vials of rocuronium, a muscle relaxant, and propofol, a sedative, both used in general anaesthesia.
Her tribunal in July 2019 was heard in private because it was ‘inextricably linked’ to her personal life.
She received a caution that stayed on her record for a year.