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Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Author accused of killing five-year-old girl with scalding hot bath water

Janice Nix leaves Uxbridge Magistrates' Court where she is charged with the manslaughter of five-year-old Andrea Bernard in 1978 - (Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire)

An author and former probation worker has appeared in court over an allegation she killed a five-year-old girl by scalding her in a hot bath in 1978.

Janice Nix, 66, is accused of the manslaughter of Andrea Bernard when she suffered serious burns at a property in Thornton Heath, southwest London on June 6, 1978.

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