All week, the tributes have poured in. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle have not been reluctant to come forward. One woman's account of how her child's life was conserved by his 'compassion and humanity' and willingness to 'exceed what is expected of an authorities officer' is especially moving.

She blogged about how the troubled teen lost his method life and ended up being understood to cops, who were forever having to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a father of 3, who ended up talking her boy below the ledge, in a metaphorical sense in addition to a literal one.

Not just did he make the teenager see that he had a future, he helped him carve one out by arranging work experience, even though this was not his job. 'We need more officers like PC Castle, not less,' this grateful mother concluded.

'That one made me well up,' states Lorne, 46, who is sitting in his living space in a peaceful property street in Bournemouth, sorting through the countless messages he has gotten today - some from strangers, however others from those he directly assisted.

He appears rather overloaded and a little teary (extremely uncharacteristic, 'or it was before all this', according to his better half Denise), by all the nice things individuals have actually been saying about him.

'It's blown me away, to be honest,' he says. 'To have people return to defend me. I'm not utilized to this, but it's actually touching.' He keeps reading, on the brink of tears: 'If I 'd passed away, you couldn't have got nicer tributes.'

And in a manner he has died, since, as he mentions: 'I'm not dead however the law enforcement officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'

Who killed PC Castle? Well, according to his managers at Dorset Police, the deadly injury was entirely self-inflicted. Recently, he was fired - 'in a manner that was ruthless. Alan Sugar fires people in a better method,' he states - after being discovered guilty of gross misbehavior.

'I'm not dead but the cops officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead,' states Castle

His crime? One that was deemed so major that it wiped out 10 years of unblemished service consisting of citations for bravery.

He apprehended a teenage suspect - later on discovered to have actually remained in belongings of a knife - without displaying appropriate 'courtesy or regard'. While grappling on the ground with the 15-year-old, who was withstanding arrest in January in 2015, PC Castle yelled, swore and pointed his finger at the suspect, who was proclaiming his innocence.

In the cold light of day, safe in his own home, having simply waved his youngest daughter off to bed, Lorne, recently jobless, still can't rather think that finger-pointing helped lose him his whole career.

He raises the upseting finger today and waggles it in front of his own nose. 'I need to holster this,' he states, despairingly. Nor can he accept a few of the concerns he had to answer throughout a 'disastrous and embarrassing' three-day gross misconduct hearing.

'For a cops officer, the concept of gross misbehavior is simply the worst, however among the important things I was asked was if I hadn't heard the suspect state that he hadn't done anything. Did I not look at him and think he might be informing the truth?' He throws both hands up.

'Were they seriously asking me why I didn't fall for the old, 'it wasn't me, guv' line. Most suspects resisting arrest say they have not done anything. I indicate a child knows that.

'Let's put this into context. We were investigating an assault. I've apprehended him. He has withstood. I'm struggling on the ground with him. There is a crowd gathering. I'm trying to contain this situation but my priority is to make this arrest and keep everyone safe.

'So when he says he hasn't done anything, I'm seriously supposed to stop and say, 'Oh, you didn't do it? Dreadfully sorry, young Sir. Let me assist you up! Tally ho! My error!' This is a suspect who did have a knife.'

Denise, who states she 'was so proud to be the partner of an authorities officer', went to every day of her hubby's disciplinary hearing and has existed to get the pieces as his life fell apart

The shock and confusion in his living room is palpable. As is the sheer disbelief. 'I mean, the audacity of even asking me that. But I knew even before the gross misconduct hearing started that I was strolling to the gallows. And they hung me out to dry.'

He adds: 'Even if I win my appeal, even if I got my job back, I wouldn't be able to do it.

'How might I walk down the street with members of the public thinking I'm a bully and a punk - all the important things I went into the cops force to challenge.

'My career is gone. I'm never going to get another job, due to the fact that who would give me one. My life is ruined. They've broken me.'

Denise, who tells me she 'was so happy to be the other half of a cops officer', went to every day of her other half's disciplinary hearing and has actually existed to get the pieces as his life broke down.

The couple, who have daughters aged 27, 18 and 8, inform me that on the day Lorne was informed he was facing gross misbehavior charges, he didn't go home - 'due to the fact that how could I inform my other half?' - but strolled along Bournemouth beach till 3am. He was too shocked to believe of strolling into the sea and says he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'however can understand people who do, in this sort of scenario, since the nature of this job isolates you from people who aren't police, so when the carpet is pulled from under you ... you feel so alone'.

Denise states she has actually seen him 'diminish, become someone who simply isn't Lorne'.

'My husband is an outgoing, bubbly, glass-half-full individual, who is a natural leader and motivator,' she describes. 'He's the most moralistic individual I understand - our children will back me up on that. And he's the sort of male who never ever contacted ill even when he was ill.

'Since all this, I've just seen him alter. He breaks down now. He questions himself. It has actually been ravaging to see. Even the kids state, 'he isn't Dad'.'

Their hero dad, openly lauded after plunging into the freezing River Avon to save an elderly female, is now making headings for all the wrong factors.

When the very first murmurings started, suggesting this once-admired officer had actually been unfairly treated by 'woke' employers who were far gotten rid of from the truth of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved rapidly to safeguard their position, releasing damning video footage, taken from a colleague's body webcam, which does indeed reveal PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

He's recorded telling the suspect to 'stop screaming like a little b ** ch' and warning him: 'I'm gon na smash you'.

This video footage, Lorne declares, was provided out of context, cherry-picked to 'not tell the complete story'.

'It was devastating that Dorset Police might do this to me, that they might want to ... destroy me,' he says. 'What that selective footage didn't reveal was the aftermath - when this suspect continued to resist arrest.

'It took 4 officers to get him in handcuffs. That video footage doesn't show the crowd around us, whom I could see in my peripheral vision.

'There was only one 999 call made about what was occurring there and it originated from a member of the general public who was concerned about me. They contacted us to say that there was an officer having a hard time, who looked as if he required back up.'

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Lorne includes: 'Dorset Police didn't even believe it was necessary to call that person as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I needed to demand it. It paints a very various picture to what took place and I thank goodness that witness existed, since otherwise I 'd believe I was freaking.'

This is an extremely unpleasant - and dissentious - case. There is no question that Lorne made judgment errors in his handling of that arrest on January 27, 2024.

He admitted as much throughout the misconduct hearing and repeats that belief today. 'I ought to not have actually used the language I did. I'm ashamed and saddened that I did that, and that it's out there for everybody to see. But the essence of what took place was, unfortunately essential. That was an arrest that required to be made and I made a judgment call.

'Could I have done it differently? Of course, but eventually I took a knife off the streets. Another authorities force has this motto, 'Take a knife; Save a Life'. My force said, 'Take a knife; Get your P45'.'

Did he deserve to lose his career? 'I don't think that's one for me to respond to,' he states, however his partner has no qualms. 'No, he did not,' Denise says firmly.

'They went out to string him up. Once they chose that they were opting for gross misconduct, they went searching for things to support that. I sat there and could not believe what they were doing.

'They have destroyed a great man and taken a great law enforcement officer off the streets. I still can't think this. This whole thing seems like such an offense.'

There has been outrage about Lorne's dismissal, significantly from those who were as soon as in the ranks of Dorset Police.

Former Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Martyn Underhill told Radio Solent this week: 'This officer overreacted, used bad language - that has to do with it. We're becoming too woke. I believe Dorset Police have actually got this enormously incorrect. Do I think he deserved to lose his task? Absolutely not.'

It is particularly devastating for Lorne that it was colleagues who first complained about his handling of that arrest. He won't talk about their participation, however it is understood that the 2 junior officers who witnessed it had only remained in the job for six months.

It is also comprehended that while, initially, it did not look as if misbehavior charges were likely, the choice was taken to initiate them. Lorne was notified of this by Superintendent Ricky Dhanda, head of Professional Standards.

In an amazing twist, Mr Dhanda has himself been put on restricted tasks while he is examined over sexual misbehavior allegations. 'Maybe me and him have various decision-making processes,' is all Lorne will say. So who is Lorne Castle - and how will history judge him?

His path into the police was a little uncommon. He matured in Torquay but transferred to neighboring Bournemouth to go to university, where he studied law.

An eager sportsman and martial arts specialist, he met Denise - who would go on to be a world champ Muay Thai fighter - and they established a sports academy together.

It was his work with youths that brought him into contact with the male who would become his coach - previous Chief Inspector Chris Amey, who had a long career with both the Met and Dorset Police.

He satisfied Lorne in 2013 and was impressed by his drive and dedication on a youth job. He convinced him to join the authorities - initially as a community support officer, then as a PC. Denise concurred that he had 'found his place' in the police.

Undoubtedly, it was a profession at which Lorne excelled. In 2021, he was called community officer of the year, after having actually been twice granted commendations.

In 2017, he saved somebody in a medical emergency then, in 2023, he plunged into the Avon, ripping off his stab vest to get in the water, ultimately holding a senior lady aloft.

He says it did happen to him that he was, technically, breaking all the guidelines and 'might deal with manslaughter charges' if his efforts to get the woman to hold on to a life ring failed.

'It did go through my mind that professional requirements might tell me I wasn't expected to go in, that I was trying to be a hero. That is the world we operate in.'

But his desire to do the ideal thing triumphed and he got an award from the Humane Society for that rescue.

Fellow officers 'who had held the ropes as I entered' were also commended however, bizarrely, when it came to the invites for the ceremony, Lorne didn't get one.

'I 'd been placed on restricted duties already [after the occurrence with the teen] and told my superiors were going to 'keep' my own until after the misconduct proceedings.' He raged, and deeply hurt. 'The other officers weren't going to go without me and I did eventually go, however it felt quite like being the child at the celebration you weren't welcomed to.'

On the night of the contentious arrest, Lorne was at completion of an 11-hour shift when a call came in about a violent masked wrongdoer, last seen driving an e-scooter, who was believed of assaulting an elderly guy and a teenage boy.

Staff at a local McDonald's had been scared enough to close their doors before calling for assistance. Earlier that day, policeman had actually been alerted that there had actually been a big gang battle and prospective suspects were still at large.

There was no reason for Lorne to take that call - the approaching shift might have handled it - but he says he offered, 'because that's what you do'.

The suspect was rapidly found and when he resisted arrest, Lorne 'took him down to the ground'.

This part is not controversial. The misconduct hearing discovered no fault with the force utilized to take the suspect to the floor. It was the tussle that followed that was deemed problematic.

Did PC Castle lose control? He stresses how laden that circumstance was. 'As a cops officer, you go into the unidentified and there is a fear there.' He points out that his employers released a damning statement which repeatedly referred to the suspect as a 15-year-old young boy.

'The narrative was that he was scared of me. But he never ever made a grievance. I would argue that he was scared of getting caught.

'And I did not understand he was 15 - to ride an e-scooter you need to be 16. Even if I had understood, should I have held back due to the fact that of his age? That is doing an injustice to every household who have actually lost someone because they were stabbed by a teenager. No, I did not understand that he had a knife, but it was my job to do a danger evaluation and I have to state my evaluation was area on.'

The knife that fell from the suspect's waistband was little but potentially fatal, especially at close quarters, he mentions.

'Do you understand how much area you need for a machete to be fatal? Quite a lot, due to the fact that it requires a swing. A knife like this? With a tiny motion you can be discussing a severed artery.'

He shakes his head. 'I can keep saying sorry for swearing. But I made that arrest. I took a knife off the streets. There was no injury. No problem from the suspect.'

Did he go off that shift thinking that it had been a disaster?

'Quite the opposite. I keep in mind thinking of the knife and going: 'Jeez, that was close. That could have gone severely'.'

He will not criticise the junior officers who raised the problem, besides to refer me to that witness who called 999. 'He thought I was on my own there.'

But the sensation that he has been let down by his superiors is clear. 'I believed we were all working towards the very same thing, which is keeping our community safe. That's all I have actually ever attempted to do and I have actually been openly damaged for it.' Lorne explains needing to turn over his badge as 'the worst minute in my life'.

He says he is nearly scared to stroll the streets he when patrolled now. 'Dorset Police have put a target on my head. I don't even know if we can remain here, as a family, which is heartbreaking since this is our community.'

The only upside is the swell of support from those who think he has actually been wronged. A GoFundMe account, established by Chris Amey, the man who motivated him to sign up with the cops, was last night standing at ₤ 95,000. 'I'm just humbled, but so grateful. It indicates I can pay the mortgage, in the meantime anyhow.'

He goes back to those messages again. One sent out on Facebook originates from another mother, Sarah Robinson, who lost her kid Cameron Hamilton in 2023. The

18-year-old was stabbed to death by another teen in Bournemouth. 'As the mum of Cameron Hamilton, who was eliminated by someone utilizing a knife, I thank you for doing your job,' she composed. 'I am distressed that the police has actually lost such an excellent officer.'

This makes Lorne want to weep - for himself and his family, yes, however also for those people he assured to serve.

'I did my job,' he duplicates. 'And I have been crucified for it.'