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A stepmother has been jailed for 12 years for killing a five-year-old girl by scalding her in a hot bath as a punishment nearly half a century ago.

A drug dealer-turned-award-winning probation officer has been convicted of killing her five-year-old stepdaughter by scalding her in a hot bath.

Janice Nix, 67, had wrought a “cycle of violence” against Andrea Bernard and her brother Desmond Bernard that went ’beyond chastisement even by contemporary standards’.