Husband told tearful wife his stepmother killed his sister in a scalding bath

A husband reduced his wife to tears when he told her how his five-year-old sister was killed by his sadistic stepmother in a bath of scalding water, a court heard. Janice Nix, now 67, allegedly meted out cruel punishments to daughter Andrea Bernard and then eight-year-old brother Desmond Bernard that went ‘beyond chastisement even by contemporary standards.’ Nix was 17 when she allegedly forced five-year-old Andrea into a bath at their home in Thornton Heath, south London, on June 6,…