Probation officer Janice Nix denies scalding girl to death in the bath

A probation officer wept as she denied killing a five-year-old girl nearly 47 years ago by forcing her into a scalding hot bath. Janice Nix, 66, is accused of the manslaughter of Andrea Bernard at an address in Ashley Road, Thornton Heath, south London, on 6 June 1978. Andrea, who was known to Nix, died in a specialist burns unit five weeks later on 13 July 1978. Nix, of Rodenhurst Road, Clapham, was in tears as she denied manslaughter and…