A drugs kingpin-turned-probation worker has been found guilty of scalding her five-year-old stepdaughter to death in 1978 after new evidence exposed the killer’s lies.
Janice Nix now faces a return to prison – years after she was put away for serious drugs offences – after jurors dismissed her account of how little Andrea Bernard was burnt by a hot bath.
Detectives praised Andrea’s older brother Desmond for coming forward in 2022 and recalling how he heard his little sister scream ‘the bath is too hot, mummy’, placing Nix at the scene.
He initially covered for Nix, who was then 19, after she promised
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