Antiguan Woman Found Guilty in Death of Child Nearly 50 Years After Incident

An Antiguan woman has been found guilty in the death of a five-year-old girl nearly five decades after the incident occurred in the United Kingdom.

Janice Nix, 67, was convicted of manslaughter after jurors concluded that she caused the death of Andrea Bernard by forcing the child into a scalding hot bath as punishment at a home in Thornton Heath, London, in 1978.

According to reports from the trial, the five-year-old suffered severe burns during the incident and later died from her injuries.

The case remained unresolved for decades before being reopened by UK investigators. Prosecutors argued that Nix, who was Andrea’s stepmother, deliberately subjected the child to the hot bath as a form of punishment.

Jurors returned a guilty verdict following the trial in London.

The conviction comes after Nix was arrested last year upon arriving on a flight returning from Antigua.