Janice Nix, who was known to Andrea, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court today charged with manslaughter.
A WOMAN has appeared in court charged with killing a five-year-old girl after she was allegedly forced into a hot bath almost 50 years ago.
The 66-year-old is also accused of child cruelty between October 1, 1975, and June 6, 1978, in relation to another child who was aged eight at the time.
A Met spokesperson said: "Detectives from the Met’s Cold Case Homicide Team have charged a woman following the death of a five-year-old girl in 1978.
Andrea Bernard is understood to have been assaulted a home in Thornton Heath, South London, on June 6, 1978.
