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All week, the tributes have gathered. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle have not hesitated to come forward. One lady's account of how her child's life was saved by his 'generosity and humankind' and desire to 'surpass what is expected of a law enforcement officer' is especially moving.

She composed about how the troubled teenager lost his method in life and ended up being understood to authorities, who were permanently needing to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a daddy of 3, who ended up talking her young boy below the ledge, in a metaphorical sense in addition to an actual one.
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Not just did he make the teenager see that he had a future, he assisted him carve one out by setting up work experience, despite the fact that this was not his job. 'We require more officers like PC Castle, not less,' this grateful mother concluded.

'That one made me well up,' states Lorne, 46, who is being in his living space in a peaceful property street in Bournemouth, sifting through the thousands of messages he has actually received this week - some from strangers, however others from those he directly helped.

He appears quite overloaded and a little teary (very uncharacteristic, 'or it was before all this', according to his spouse Denise), by all the great things people have actually been stating about him.

'It's blown me away, to be sincere,' he says. 'To have individuals come back to stand up for me. I'm not used to this, however it's really touching.' He continues reading, on the brink of tears: 'If I 'd died, you could not have actually got nicer tributes.'

And in such a way he has passed away, because, as he points out: 'I'm not dead however the police officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'

Who eliminated PC Castle? Well, according to his managers at Dorset Police, the deadly injury was totally self-inflicted. Last week, he was fired - 'in a manner that was ruthless. Alan Sugar fires people in a nicer way,' he says - after being condemned of gross misbehavior.

'I'm not dead however the policeman I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead,' states Castle

His crime? One that was deemed so major that it eliminated 10 years of unblemished service including citations for bravery.

He jailed a teenage suspect - later found to have been in possession of a knife - without displaying sufficient 'courtesy or regard'. While grappling on the ground with the 15-year-old, who was withstanding arrest in January last year, 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 simply waved his youngest daughter off to bed, Lorne, newly jobless, still can't quite think that finger-pointing helped lose him his entire profession.

He raises the upseting finger today and waggles it in front of his own nose. 'I need to holster this,' he says, despairingly. Nor can he accept some of the concerns he needed to address during a 'devastating and embarrassing' three-day gross misconduct hearing.

'For a policeman, the concept of gross misconduct is simply the worst, however one of the important things I was asked was if I had not heard the suspect state that he hadn't done anything. Did I not look at him and believe he might be informing the fact?' He throws 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 have not done anything. I mean a kid understands that.

'Let's put this into context. We were examining an assault. I've apprehended him. He has actually withstood. I'm struggling on the ground with him. There is a crowd gathering. I'm trying to contain this scenario however my concern is to make this arrest and keep everybody safe.

'So when he states 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 mistake!' 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 partner's disciplinary hearing and has actually been there to select up the pieces as his life fell apart

The shock and bewilderment in his living space is palpable. As is the large 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 task back, I would not be able to do it.

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

'My profession is gone. I'm never going to get another job, because who would give me one. My life is ruined. They have actually broken me.'

Denise, who tells me she 'was so proud to be the wife of a policeman', participated in every day of her husband's disciplinary hearing and has actually been there to get the pieces as his life broke down.

The couple, who have children aged 27, 18 and 8, tell me that on the day Lorne was told he was dealing with gross misbehavior charges, he didn't go home - 'due to the fact that how could I tell my spouse?' - however strolled along Bournemouth beach until 3am. He was too surprised to think about walking into the sea and states he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'but can comprehend people who do, in this sort of circumstance, due to the fact that the nature of this job isolates you from individuals who aren't authorities, so when the carpet is pulled from under you ... you feel so alone'.

Denise says she has actually seen him 'shrink, become someone who just isn't Lorne'.

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

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

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

When the first murmurings began, recommending this once-admired officer had actually been unfairly treated by 'woke' managers who were far eliminated from the reality of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved rapidly to safeguard their position, releasing damning video footage, drawn from a coworker's body web cam, which does undoubtedly reveal PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

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

This footage, Lorne claims, was presented out of context, cherry-picked to 'not inform the full story'.

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

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

'There was just one 999 call made about what was occurring there and it came from a member of the public who was worried about me. They called to say that there was an officer struggling, who appeared he needed back up.'

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

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

He confessed as much throughout the misconduct hearing and repeats that sentiment today. 'I need to not have actually used the language I did. I'm ashamed and saddened that I did that, which it's out there for everybody to see. But the essence of what occurred was, regrettably essential. That was an arrest that required to be made and I made a judgment call.

'Could I have done it differently? Obviously, however ultimately I took a knife off the streets. Another police has this motto, 'Take a knife