{"id":605095,"date":"2026-05-26T16:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605095\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:57:18","slug":"secret-past-of-child-killer-janice-nix-revealed-as-being-jailed-for-crime-48-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605095\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret past of child killer Janice Nix revealed as being jailed for crime 48 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/01KSJ3XXCC3NQ9SCJZ3MQWFG94.jpg\" width=\"2250\" height=\"3000\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;\/p&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"sc-eqUAAy kRUyJB\"\/><\/p>\n<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>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undated handout photo issued by Metropolitan Police of five-year-old Andrea Bernard, who died in in July 1978, nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79322,49,43250,50,23877,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-605095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bath","tag-headlines","tag-manslaughter","tag-news","tag-south-london","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}