At which point they said, “So is there any reason why she might have his number saved in her phone?”
KIMBERLY NOLAN:
“Is there any reason why Zoe called him three times last night?”
ANDREW FLOWERS:
“So how come your girlfriend’s been meeting with this guy in secret once or twice a week?” There were texts and calls between them backing it all up. It was one of those rare moments when I was rendered speechless.
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Sent: 2019-02-05 17:18
To: you
on Sat, Feb 04, 2019, Joseph Knox [email protected] wrote:
Well, that was a lot of fun. Great, great, great to see you. We must do it more often. XXXXX XXXXX XXXX XXXXX Thanks again for sending through P2. Don’t have heaps of reading time right now, but rest assured it’s safe.
I did just finish chapter 11.
Have you noticed Liu Wai says Andrew used to pick Zoe up on her English? If memory serves that was the theme of whoever messed with Zoe’s essay too. It also feels weird to me that Rob Nolan had hair missing on the morning he arrived at Owens Park…
It would be really helpful to have a cheat sheet of who was where on the night Zoe went missing, if you have such a thing?
Stay well.
Jx
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Interesting catch re: Andrew correcting Zoe’s English. The essay said: “Too many pronouns”…
Alibi cheat sheet below:
Andrew Flowers: No alibi （says he was walking round the xmas lights）。
Fintan Murphy: Left tower with Jai （Jai too wasted to remember）。 He stayed in with his flatmate Connor Sullivan that night then back to Owens Park on the morning of the 17th to retrieve speakers from the party （Connor confirmed Fintan’s alibi at the time but would be good to speak to him.）
Jai Mahmood: No alibi （says he stayed at absent friend Tariq’s place）。
Kimberly Nolan: No alibi （says she left party after Andrew and Jai’s fight. Then was in tower, apparently alone, looking for Zoe, then some missing hours before her arrest at the building site.）
Liu Wai: Down in the crowd outside the tower.
Rob Nolan: No alibi （played xmas gig in Stockport. Got home after Sally was asleep, so could easily have been out longer than he said）。 Interesting thought on his missing hair…
Sally Nolan: I guess because Rob was away we need to mark her down as having no alibi too?
I’m working away on the next part. Feel like seeing you gave me a shot in the arm, though. XXXXXXXX Speak soon.
Ex
12.
“Special Relationship”
As the investigation moves into its second day, evidence surfaces of multiple clandestine relationships in Zoe’s life.
FINTAN MURPHY:
I think the main thing driving me on to campus that day was that I couldn’t face another fruitless search of Owens Park. In my view, we already knew where Zoe wasn’t. I was supposed to be going home for Christmas that night. I badly needed to see my ma, but I just couldn’t face the thought of leaving without being of some use. It was Sunday, December 18. I wasn’t sure if Martin Harris, the building that houses the Music and Drama Department, would even be open. And it seemed even less likely I’d find Zoe’s course tutor, Hannah Docherty, sitting at her desk. When I saw her there, it seemed like such a run of good luck that I thought I might step inside and see Zoe too. But of course that’s where one kind of streak ended and another one began.
KIMBERLY NOLAN:
One of the ways that Zoe and I backslid when we went to Manchester was academically. Basically, I turned up to my classes, frowned, did the reading and melted my brain trying to understand it all. I loved reading, but I was never a classroom kind of person. I blended in—I doubt my teachers could have even told you my name. But Zoe’s tutors seemed to really see something in her, and one of them especially. Zoe said they emailed each other all the time, met outside course hours, talked on the phone, all this.
ANDREW FLOWERS:
Miss Docherty, yes. I mean, on more than one occasion, Zoe actually cancelled our plans to accommodate her. Dinners, drinks, even concerts and shows. My lecturers just told me to stop talking.
SALLY NOLAN:
When she called home, Zoe talked about Miss Docherty all the time. Rob had looked her up online, checking her credentials. I think he felt like her special interest in Zoe was a kind of vindication of what he’d seen in her himself.
FINTAN MURPHY:
I found her young and friendly, in fact precisely as she’d been described to me. And her face actually lit up when I mentioned Zoe’s name. She said something like, “Oh, I’ve been waiting for this.”
DR. HANNAH DOCHERTY, Zoe’s course tutor:
Well, Zoe Nolan was something of a fascination for me. You get perhaps two or three of them each year, these students who simply stand out from the crowd. Unfortunately, in Zoe’s case, she was standing out for all the wrong reasons. She’d never once made contact with me or attended any of our weekly meetings, which of course she was supposed to. So when this waifish Irish boy tiptoed into my office just before Christmas break, I thought, Ah. This is the boyfriend, and Miss Nolan’s standing out in the corridor, too scared to come in. Of course, as it turned out, that wasn’t quite the case.6
ROBERT NOLAN:
When they told me about it, I said, “She’s lying.” I just said she was lying and then left the room. And I remember this feeling of massive, skyscraping fear out in front of me. Because I couldn’t work out why anyone—why a teacher especially—would lie about something like that.