All week, the tributes have actually gathered. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle haven't thought twice to come forward. One female's account of how her kid's life was conserved by his 'generosity and humanity' and determination to 'go beyond what is anticipated of a law enforcement officer' is especially moving.

She discussed how the distressed teenager lost his way in life and ended up being known to authorities, who were permanently having to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a dad of 3, who ended up talking her boy down from the ledge, in a metaphorical sense along with an actual one.

Not just did he make the teenager see that he had a future, he helped him carve one out by arranging work experience, despite the fact that this was not his task. 'We need more officers like PC Castle, not fewer,' this grateful mom concluded.

'That a person made me well up,' says Lorne, 46, who is sitting in his living space in a quiet property street in Bournemouth, sifting through the countless messages he has gotten today - some from strangers, however others from those he directly helped.

He seems rather overwhelmed and a little teary (really uncharacteristic, 'or it was before all this', according to his spouse Denise), by all the good things people have actually been stating about him.

'It's blown me away, to be sincere,' he says. 'To have individuals return to defend me. I'm not used to this, but it's truly touching.' He continues reading, on the brink of tears: 'If I 'd passed away, you couldn't have actually got better homages.'

And in such a way he has died, due to the fact that, as he points out: 'I'm not dead however the policeman I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'

Who eliminated PC Castle? Well, according to his employers at Dorset Police, the deadly wound was entirely self-inflicted. Last week, he was fired - 'in a manner that was brutal. Alan Sugar fires individuals in a better method,' he says - after being found guilty of gross misconduct.

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

His criminal offense? One that was considered so serious that it erased 10 years of unblemished service consisting of citations for bravery.

He jailed a teenage suspect - later on found to have been in belongings of a knife - without showing adequate 'courtesy or regard'. While grappling on the ground with the 15-year-old, who was withstanding arrest in January in 2015, PC Castle screamed, 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 just waved his youngest child off to bed, Lorne, newly unemployed, still can't quite think that finger-pointing assisted lose him his entire 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 questions he had to answer during a 'devastating and humiliating' three-day gross misbehavior hearing.

'For a law enforcement officer, the idea of gross misconduct is simply the worst, however one of the things I was asked was if I had not heard the suspect say that he had not done anything. Did I not take a look at him and believe he might be informing the truth?' He tosses both hands up.

'Were they seriously asking me why I didn't succumb to the old, 'it wasn't me, guv' line. Most suspects resisting arrest say they haven't done anything. I suggest a kid understands that.

'Let's put this into context. We were examining an assault. I've apprehended him. He has resisted. I'm having a hard time on the ground with him. There is a crowd gathering. I'm trying to contain this circumstance 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 state, 'Oh, you didn't do it? Dreadfully sorry, young Sir. Let me help you up! Tally ho! My error!' This is a suspect who did have a knife.'

Denise, who says she 'was so proud to be the better half of a police officer', went to every day of her partner's disciplinary hearing and has been there to get the pieces as his life broke down

The shock and bewilderment in his living room is palpable. As is the sheer disbelief. 'I imply, the audacity of even asking me that. But I understood even before the gross misconduct hearing began that I was walking 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 stroll down the street with members of the public thinking I'm a bully and a hooligan - all the things I entered into the police to challenge.

'My profession is gone. I'm never ever going to get another task, since who would offer me one. My life is messed up. They've broken me.'

Denise, who tells me she 'was so proud to be the spouse of a cops officer', attended every day of her spouse's disciplinary hearing and has been there to choose up the pieces as his life fell apart.

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

Denise states she has seen him 'diminish, end up being somebody who simply isn't Lorne'.

'My hubby is an outbound, bubbly, glass-half-full person, who is a natural leader and incentive,' she describes. 'He's the most moralistic individual I know - our children will back me up on that. And he's the sort of man who never employed sick even when he was ill.

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

Their hero daddy, openly lauded after plunging into the freezing River Avon to save an elderly woman, is now making headings for all the incorrect reasons.

When the first murmurings began, suggesting this once-admired officer had actually been unfairly treated by 'woke' bosses who were far gotten rid of from the reality of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved quickly to defend their position, releasing damning video footage, drawn from an associate's body web cam, which does indeed show PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

He's tape-recorded informing the suspect to 'stop shouting like a little b ** ch' and cautioning him: 'I'm gon na smash you'.

This video footage, Lorne declares, was presented 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 desire to ... destroy me,' he says. 'What that selective video footage didn't reveal was the after-effects - when this suspect continued to withstand arrest.

'It took four officers to get him in handcuffs. That video does not show the crowd around us, whom I could see in my peripheral vision.

'There was just one 999 call made about what was happening there and it came from a member of the public who was worried about me. They called to say that there was an officer having a hard time, who looked as if he needed back up.'

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

This is an incredibly troubling - and divisive - case. There is no concern that Lorne made judgment mistakes in his handling of that arrest on January 27, 2024.

He admitted as much during the misconduct hearing and repeats that sentiment today. 'I should not have used the language I did. I'm ashamed and saddened that I did that, which it's out there for everyone to see. But the essence of what occurred was, unfortunately required. That was an arrest that needed to be made and I made a judgment call.

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

Did he deserve to lose his profession? 'I don't believe that's one for me to address,' he says, but his wife has no qualms. 'No, he did not,' Denise says firmly.

'They went out to string him up. Once they decided that they were going for gross misconduct, they went looking for things to support that. I sat there and couldn't think what they were doing.

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

There has actually 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 today: 'This officer overreacted, used bad language - that has to do with it. We're ending up being too woke. I believe Dorset Police have got this enormously incorrect. Do I think he should have to lose his task? Never.'

It is particularly ravaging for Lorne that it was coworkers who initially grumbled about his handling of that arrest. He won't discuss their participation, however it is understood that the 2 junior officers who saw it had only been in the job for 6 months.

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

In a remarkable twist, Mr Dhanda has himself been put on restricted tasks while he is examined over sexual misconduct claims. 'Maybe me and him have different decision-making procedures,' is all Lorne will state. So who is Lorne Castle - and how will history judge him?

His route into the police was a little unusual. He matured in Torquay however relocated to neighboring Bournemouth to go to university, where he studied law.

A keen 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 guy who would become his mentor - former Chief Inspector Chris Amey, who had a long career with both the Met and Dorset Police.

He met Lorne in 2013 and was impressed by his drive and commitment on a youth task. He encouraged him to join the authorities - initially as a neighborhood support officer, then as a PC. Denise concurred that he had 'found his location' in the authorities.

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

In 2017, he conserved somebody in a medical emergency then, in 2023, he plunged into the Avon, ripping off his stab vest to enter the water, ultimately holding an elderly female up.

He states it did strike him that he was, technically, breaking all the guidelines and 'might face murder charges' if his efforts to get the lady to hold on to a life ring failed.

'It did go through my mind that expert requirements could tell me I wasn't expected to go in, that I was attempting to be a hero. That is the world we run in.'

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

Fellow officers 'who had held the ropes as I went in' were also applauded however, bizarrely, when it came to the invitations for the event, Lorne didn't get one.

'I 'd been put on restricted tasks by then [after the event with the teenager] and told my superiors were going to 'keep' my own till after the misbehavior procedures.' He raged, and deeply hurt. 'The other officers weren't going to go without me and I did ultimately go, however it felt very much 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 was available in about a violent masked transgressor, last seen driving an e-scooter, who was presumed of attacking an elderly guy and a teenage boy.

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

There was no factor for Lorne to take that call - the oncoming shift might have managed it - however he states he offered, 'since that's what you do'.

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

This part is not contentious. The misconduct hearing discovered no fault with the force used 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 filled that scenario was. 'As a police officer, you go into the unknown and there is a worry there.' He points out that his employers launched a damning statement which repeatedly referred to the suspect as a 15-year-old boy.

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

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

The knife that fell from the suspect's waistband was small but potentially deadly, especially at close quarters, he points out.

'Do you know how much area you require for a machete to be fatal? Quite a lot, because it needs a swing. A knife like this? With a tiny motion you can be discussing a severed artery.'

He shakes his head. 'I can keep stating 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 believing 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 badly'.'

He won't criticise the junior officers who raised the complaint, besides to refer me to that witness who called 999. 'He believed I was on my own there.'

But the feeling that he has been pulled down by his superiors is clear. 'I thought we were all working towards the same thing, which is keeping our neighborhood safe. That's all I have actually ever attempted to do and I have actually been publicly destroyed for it.' Lorne explains having to hand over his badge as 'the worst minute in my life'.

He states he is almost scared to stroll the streets he when patrolled now. 'Dorset Police have actually put a target on my head. I don't even understand if we can stay here, as a family, which is heartbreaking because this is our neighborhood.'

The only advantage is the swell of assistance from those who believe he has actually been wronged. A GoFundMe account, established by Chris Amey, the guy who motivated him to sign up with the police, was last night standing at ₤ 95,000. 'I'm just humbled, however so grateful. It suggests I can pay the mortgage, for now anyhow.'

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

18-year-old was stabbed to death by another teenager in Bournemouth. 'As the mum of Cameron Hamilton, who was killed by someone utilizing a knife, I thank you for doing your task,' she composed. 'I am saddened that the police has actually lost such a good officer.'

This makes Lorne want to weep - for himself and his family, yes, but likewise for those individuals he promised to serve.

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