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The military division of His Majesty The King’s first New Year Honours List has been published, granting state honours to personnel serving across the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force.

A police officer and his cousin were yesterday remanded into custody after being accused of a murder conspiracy. Prosecutors say Corporal Darren Davis, 47, and Stephon Davis, 27, conspired to murder Jayson Whitfield, a senior clerk at the Passport Office on December 2. The plan to bump off the 43-year-old was allegedly carried out on December

The first pre-trial hearing involving former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, who has been accused of multiple felonies including attempted murder, got underway in a Santa Clara county court on Monday.

Murder. >> when i heard chris was arrested, it was like, yay, thank you, lord, thank you. they finally got him. >> prosecutors believe that chris davis tried to kill dorothy three years earlier by disconnecting the smoke detectors and setting the house on fire before leaving with his daughter for a car ride. that attempt failed. then, chris found dorothys journal and the suicide notes she had written earlier. this provided his cover story. >> he had suicide notes. what better way to mislead inve...

>> the police came. the fire crew came. they took the television set out. they saw that there was an electrical malfunction in the television set, and the case was closed. >> in light of dorothys dth, this fire three years earlier looked suspicious. >> things made me go, hmm. we would call that where i come from, this is a clue. things like this dont happen to a person twice in the same manner. this -- this was a clue. >> now corporal davis was officially a suspect, and the manner of his wifes d...

Families. corporal chris davis, a communications specialist, loved military life. his wife, dorothy, did not. the couple had been married ten years and had two daughters, ages 5 and 2. >> my sister was kind of getting depressed off and on. she had had some down time. i knew that dorothy was on medication, and she was on an antidepressant. >> on the night of march 13th, 1991, corporal davis was having drinks with friends at a bar near the base. he stepped out to the lobby to call his wife around ...

Dorothy was dead, a .22 caliber pistol in her hand. >> mrs. davis is lying on their bed with the covers up to her abdomen. she appears to have a gunshot wound to her right temple. >> police video taken at the scene indicated there was no forced entry into the house. the davis children were asleep in their bedroom. whatever happened didnt awaken them. there was no evidence of an argument or an altercation. >> dorothy herself had no signs of physical trauma or any type of defense wounds. what it l...

She had been having an affair with corporal davis for more than a year. >> people knew we were romantically involved. they knew that because he was very affectionate out in public, something i wasnt getting from my husband at the time. no affection, no nothing. >> apparently, chris had gotten over his grief from his wifes suicide quite quickly. >> this, however, did not implicate chris in his wifes death. in fact, chris infidelity may have caused dorothys depression. >> myself and everybody else...

The bar to call dorothy from a pay phone in the lobby. she said, she too went out to the lobby a short time later and chris davis wasnt there. he returned 20 minutes later. >> witness told us at this point that corporal davis was red-faced, appeared to be out of breath. he was no longer wearing a jacket that he was wearing earlier. >> so, where was chriss jacket? investigators saw it in the photos taken of the scene the night of dorothys death, hanging on the doorknob of the couples bedroom. >> ...

Based there, part of a self-contained city that is home to thousands of military families. corporal chris davis, a communications specialist, loved military life. his wife, dorothy, did not. the couple had been married ten years and had two daughters, ages 5 and 2. >> my sister was kind of getting depressed off and on. she had had some down time. i knew that dorothy was on medication and she was on an antidepressant. >> on the night of march 13th, 1991, corporal davis was having drinks with frie...