True Crime Story(87)
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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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:
I’d already exited Greater Manchester Police when the tape leaked in full, so anything I say about how it might have affected the investigation is speculative. I can say that with Zoe still missing, her file definitely remains open, even if inactive, and I’d think that a development of this kind would be enough to encourage detectives to take a second look.
Unfortunately for Andrew and Kim, an affair gives them the strongest motive we’ve seen yet to want Zoe out of the picture. We saw how she reacted when she found out, how seriously she took the news. And you could argue that they both benefitted from her disappearance, because seemingly, no one else discovered what they’d done, not until all this.
LIU WAI:
And even more worryingly than that, I started to see for the first time why Andrew and Kim might have wanted to hurt Zoe, how they’d always actually hated her. Andrew with his snobbish downward-looking boredom and Kim with her disapproval of everything her sister represented. I was shocked literally to my core. I remember that I started reading the story on my phone at work, then suddenly I was lying on the office floor, breathing into the brown paper bag I’d brought my Tesco Finest smoked-salmon sandwich in.
Because I started to see how much Andrew and Kim must have hated me too, how personal it had always been. They let the whole world believe I might have had something to do with that tape leaking, when they knew all along that it was never on the laptop Zoe gave me, because she didn’t film it. She wasn’t even in it. She found out about it at exactly the same time I did.
SARAH MANNING:
That said, while I do think it might raise new questions for the investigation and certainly point toward a possible motive, my first concern would be the provenance of that video. This is something that’s lain dormant somewhere for seven years, which suggests someone’s been holding on to it all that time. Our main suspect, our shadow man, was someone so obsessed with Zoe that he stole clothes and other objects belonging to her. He had access to that flat. I’d suggest that makes him the most likely culprit for this leak. So the question is, why now? Who does it benefit?
SALLY NOLAN:
Well, I’d listened to the first message on the machine, which was from Rob, telling me I might hear bad things about him, telling me not to believe them until he’d had a chance to explain. He didn’t say much more than that, but I could tell by his voice it was serious, and of course the next message was from Fintan, who was more informative, more distraught.