<p>Undated handout photo issued by Metropolitan Police of five-year-old Andrea Bernard, who died in in July 1978, nearly six weeks after arriving at hospital with severe burns to 50 per cent of her body, caused by immersion in a scalding bath at her home in Thornton Heath. Janice Nix, 67, has been found guilty at Isleworth Crown Court, west London, of the manslaughter of five-year-old Andrea Bernard by punishing her with a scalding hot bath in Thornton Heath, south London, in 1978. Issue date: Tuesday May 26, 2026.</p>

Undated handout photo issued by Metropolitan Police of five-year-old Andrea Bernard, who died in in July 1978, nearly six weeks after arriving at hospital with severe burns to 50 per cent of her body, caused by immersion in a scalding bath at her home in Thornton Heath. Janice Nix, 67, has been found guilty at Isleworth Crown Court, west London, of the manslaughter of five-year-old Andrea Bernard by punishing her with a scalding hot bath in Thornton Heath, south London, in 1978. Issue date: Tuesday May 26, 2026.

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