It was Shakespearean, or at least I assume that’s the kind of thing they mean when they say that. A father’s response to his daughter’s disappearance ends up destroying him. Who wouldn’t want to read about that? And after all, our readers were acquainted with Rob Nolan from years of stories, initiatives, quotes, interviews—they knew him inside out.
Full credit to Murphy, he staged a real response. He had a local press conference scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on the fourteenth, the same day I’d hit him with the allegations. It just turned out not to be the biggest fish in the deep-fat fryer. Soon as he walked in with his statement, the room, which had already been half empty, started emptying even more. Phones started ringing, local hacks started getting up and answering, walking out. I couldn’t believe it. We were the only national newspaper there, and it looked like these smaller guys weren’t even interested. For a second, I thought I’d misjudged the public interest in Zoe after all these years. I thought, What could be a bigger car crash than this?
ANDREW FLOWERS:
It was something more than simple recognition. These teenage kids were openly laughing, pointing at me. By then, I knew they weren’t buying anything, so I went over and asked them not to let the door hit them on their arses on the way out. I basically gave them both barrels and watched them disperse, still pissing their pants about something.
MARCUS LEE:
By the time poor Fintan hit that stage, he was one of the only people left in the room. It was one of those moments you see more and more of now. News outlets being scooped by the internet. It was my first time being scooped by Pornhub, though.
ANDREW FLOWERS:
I saw what they’d been searching for on this tablet, and it felt like my heart almost literally fucking stopped.
KIMBERLY NOLAN:
When I got home on Friday night, there was one reporter camping outside my house, like, literally camping, in a tent. I’d never seen anything like that, not even at the height of Zoe’s disappearance. There were two or three guys on the street I had to walk through to get to my door, and it seemed stupid to pretend, so I turned and said something like, “Look, I don’t know anything about my dad’s personal life. We’re not that close,” but they couldn’t have cared less. One of them just shoved a camera in my face and shouted, “Yeah, we know, but how close are you to Andrew Flowers?”
ANDREW FLOWERS:
The kids had typed my name into the search engine. My name followed by the letters XXX. The Net Nanny safety settings had prevented any results from popping up, but it gave me another bad feeling. I realized I was getting the same look from my colleagues that the kids had given me, then when I went into the break room a few minutes later, I saw what they’d been searching for over my boss’s shoulder. I realized I was watching the video, the so-called sex tape that we’d recorded seven years before.
It had been leaked on to the internet.
I’d never seen a single frame since then, the night Zoe scratched my face off for it and went missing. My understanding was that it had never been uploaded anywhere, and besides, it was something like six seconds long. Then I realized that this was something different. This wasn’t just those six seconds of me saying, “Zoe, Zoe.” It was the full thing, more like sixteen minutes long.
MARCUS LEE:
I followed the locals out into the hallway to work out what was going on, and suddenly everyone around me’s watching porn on their phones. I twigged it was the much-discussed Zoe-Andrew sex tape leaked in full and started walking back into the conference room for Murphy. He looked close to tears as it was. Then someone grabs my arm, like, “No, Marcus, you’re not understanding what we’ve got here. This is the fucking big one.”
SAY IT WITH FLOWERS!
Revelation sex tape reveals steamy bonk betrayal between Andrew Flowers, ex-boyfriend of tragic missing Zoe Nolan, and her troubled twin sister, Kim.
In the video, which has already been viewed more than 88,000 times, a teenage Flowers, now 26, can be seen taking root in a young woman who he repeatedly calls “Zoe.”
Although top cops knew about the tape in 2011, The Sport understands they had only seen a much shorter version of it, concluding that Flowers had indeed been sowing seeds with his then-girlfriend, Zoe Nolan.
But the 16-minute uncut revelation sex tape, which was uploaded to streaming sites anonymously on December 14, clearly shows Kim, now 25, asking Flowers to call her by her sister’s name.
In a budding romance that looks anything but garden variety, Flowers seems to struggle with thorny Kim’s request until she firmly plants one on him.
Flowers kisses back, taking a leaf out of Kim’s book and calling her Zoe, until both of them are coming up roses. Whoops-a-daisy!
It is not known how the footage was obtained or if the police have been contacted about the leak.
But their steamy fertilization will raise more questions for cops about missing Zoe Nolan, who fought tooth and nail with Flowers just minutes before disappearing from a Manchester house party in December 2011.
Zoe’s best friend, senior human resources consultant Liu Wai, 25, said, “Andrew Flowers and Kimberly Nolan owe the world an apology and an explanation.”
She said, “The fact that they were carrying on behind Zoe’s back and that she had to find out about it shortly before she disappeared breaks my heart.”
“But clearly the two things aren’t unrelated, and I really urge Andrew and Kim to take a look at themselves rather than each other and tell us what was really going on.”
Neither Flowers or Nolan could be reached for comment.
Preparations for an anniversary celebration of Zoe’s life, which had been organized by the charity founded in her name, were put on hold after allegations of “impropriety” were levelled at Nolan Foundation founder Robert Nolan.
He has since stepped down from his position on the board.
Sunday Sport, Saturday, December 15
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12 All interviews with Marcus Lee were conducted by Joseph Knox in 2019.
13 This interview was conducted by Joseph Knox in 2019.
25.
“Full Stop”
LIU WAI:
Let’s be real for a minute, shall we? I think we all worked out a few things on the spot when that story broke. I certainly got some insight into why my best friend had been so upset to see that video. I felt like I finally understood why she was so hurt, so betrayed, why she had to leave the party and walk up to the roof on her own and in tears. She’d just found out her boyfriend and her twin sister were playing some twisted sex game behind her back. She didn’t know who she could trust. When the tape was uploaded, I started to see why Zoe might have wanted to disappear full stop.
SARAH MANNING: