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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ted Hennessey

Stepmother found guilty of killing five-year-old girl in scalding bath

Janice Nix was convicted nearly half a century after her stepdaughter died (Ben Whitley/PA) - (PA Archive)

A stepmother has been found guilty of killing a five-year-old girl by scalding her in a hot bath as a punishment almost half a century ago.

Janice Nix, 67, was convicted of the manslaughter of Andrea Bernard, whom she forced into the bath in Thornton Heath, south London, in 1978.

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