Newshub has spoken to many people who considered themselves close friends of Flint and who supported her through her supposed terminal cancer. New Zealand Police investigating Flint have found zero evidence of her having cancer at all.
Flint faces nine fraud related charges and was due to make her first appearance in the Christchurch District Court last week. But Flint left the country in a hurry in December and is believed to be living in Wales with her husband and children.
The court has now issued a warrant for her arrest.
Flint’s alleged to have stolen about $100,000 from Christchurch Football Club and nearly $85,000 from her former employer, ANZ bank. She is also charged with forging medical documents by two respected Christchurch surgeons to back up her own claims of having terminal cancer.
Several of Flint’s former friends have spoken to Newshub on the condition of anonymity.
“The lying was abhorrent. She would give us graphic details of her side effects, wear band-aids after ‘treatment’, sob uncontrollably about dying and there were always scans and blood tests.
“She was very convincing but if you pushed her, she would not answer any questions – in fact, she’d just shut down the conversation,” one said.
Another close friend told Newshub: “If I did start asking in-depth questions about her health, she’d shut me down and not talk to me. She would say, ‘I think about dying from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep, I don’t want to talk about it now.'”
Yet another friend said: “One of the worst things is that two of her closest friends lost people very close to them to cancer. One lost her husband and is raising two children on her own, the other lost a mother when she was two.
“I think those two friends were right beside her until very recently. How she lied to them, I can’t comprehend.”
A close neighbourhood friend said: “Nic has totally broken my heart and I will never forgive what she’s done. The lies are just so hurtful and I can’t believe she’s continuing the same behaviour in the UK.
“Those around her need to wake up. A New Zealand police officer has said on nationwide television that she does not have cancer – she is lying.”
This year, she messaged a friend saying her cancer “was everywhere” and detailed numerous surgeries and procedures she was undergoing in the UK.
One of Flint’s messages reads: “I think the sooner the cancer finishes off the job the better… for everyone.”
Flint claimed she was having “cyberknife” treatment in early February in the UK and she had a large tumour removed from her bowel in March. A message she sent shortly after read: “Need another operation within next 2 weeks as pretty nasty growth in my upper colon, but they removed large tumour from my bowel… have sent 13 biopsies off… they are cancerous, just need to see what type so can look at potential treatment.”
At the time Flint said all of this treatment was happening, Newshub received video of Flint dancing the macarena at a party in the UK.