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The Independent UK
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Mathilde Grandjean

Stepmother jailed for 12 years over manslaughter of girl, 5, in scalding bath

Janice Nix, 67, was found guilty of the manslaughter of five-year-old Andrea Bernard by punishing her with a scalding hot bath. - (Metropolitan Police)

A stepmother has been handed a 12-year prison sentence for the manslaughter of a five-year-old girl, a crime committed almost 50 years ago.

Janice Nix, 67, was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on Friday for scalding Andrea Bernard to death in a hot bath as a punishment in Thornton Heath, south London, back in 1978.

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