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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Matthew Weaver

Woman guilty of killing stepdaughter, five, by scalding almost 50 years ago

Janice Nix
Janice Nix leaves the Old Bailey in London in March 2025. Photograph: Ben Whitley/PA

A woman has been found guilty of killing her five-year-old stepdaughter by punishing her in a scalding hot bath almost 50 years ago.

Andrea Bernard’s death in 1978 in Thornton Heath, south London, was treated as an accident until the girl’s older brother, Desmond Bernard, went to police in 2022 with a new account of what happened, Isleworth crown court heard.

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