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The stepmum exposed as a young girl's killer almost 50 years on

In September 2022, a man named Desmond Bernard entered Croydon police station to reveal a harrowing secret he had kept for nearly 50 years. Bernard recounted how, in 1978, his stepmother Janice Nix caused the death of his five-year-old sister Andrea by scalding her in a hot bath at their home in Thornton Heath, south…