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. Andrea’s death was initially treated as an accident until her older brother, Desmond Bernard, approached police in 2022 with a new account of the events, Isleworth Crown Court heard. Nix, from Clapham, south London,

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