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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Pol Allingham

Stepmother who killed girl in bath detailed long life of crime as drug dealer ‘Mama J’ in memoir

Janice Nix has been convicted of the manslaughter of five-year-old Andrea Bernard - (Ben Whitley/PA Wire)

A woman convicted of killing her five-year-old stepdaughter in a scalding hot bath was once a major drug dealer dubbed “Mama J”.

Janice Nix, 67, was found guilty on Tuesday of the manslaughter of Andrea Bernard by forcing her into the bath in south London’s Thornton Heath on 6 June 1978.

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