All week, the homages have actually gathered. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle haven't been reluctant to come forward. One lady's account of how her kid's life was saved by his 'compassion and mankind' and willingness to 'surpass what is expected of a cops officer' is especially moving.

She wrote about how the distressed teen lost his method in life and ended up being known to police, who were forever having to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a dad of 3, who wound up talking her kid below the ledge, in a metaphorical sense in addition to an actual one.

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

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

He appears quite overwhelmed and a little teary (very uncharacteristic, 'or it was before all this', according to his better half Denise), by all the good things people have actually been saying about him.

'It's blown me away, to be truthful,' he states. 'To have people return to defend me. I'm not utilized to this, however it's truly touching.' He reads on, on the brink of tears: 'If I 'd died, you couldn't have got better tributes.'

And in a manner he has passed away, because, as he mentions: 'I'm not dead but the authorities officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'
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Who eliminated PC Castle? Well, according to his managers at Dorset Police, the deadly injury was entirely self-inflicted. Recently, he was fired - 'in a way that was brutal. Alan Sugar fires individuals in a better way,' he states - after being discovered guilty of gross misbehavior.

'I'm not dead but the policeman I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead,' says Castle

His crime? One that was considered so severe that it wiped out 10 years of unblemished service including citations for bravery.

He apprehended a teenage suspect - later on found to have actually been in ownership of a knife - without showing appropriate 'courtesy or respect'. While grappling on the ground with the 15-year-old, who was resisting arrest in January last year, PC Castle shouted, 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, freshly out of work, still can't quite think that finger-pointing helped lose him his whole career.

He raises the angering finger today and waggles it in front of his own nose. 'I need to holster this,' he states, despairingly. Nor can he accept some of the questions he had to address during a 'terrible and embarrassing' three-day gross misbehavior hearing.

'For a policeman, the idea of gross misbehavior is just the worst, however among the important things I was asked was if I hadn't heard the suspect state that he had not done anything. Did I not look at him and think he might be telling the fact?' 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 withstanding arrest say they have not done anything. I suggest a child understands that.

'Let's put this into context. We were investigating an assault. I've detained him. He has actually resisted. I'm having a hard time on the ground with him. There is a crowd event. I'm trying to include this circumstance but my top priority is to make this arrest and keep everybody safe.

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

Denise, who says she 'was so proud to be the other half of a policeman', participated in every day of her spouse's disciplinary hearing and has actually existed to choose up the pieces as his life fell apart

The shock and confusion in his living space is palpable. As is the sheer shock. 'I mean, the audacity of even asking me that. But I knew even before the gross misbehavior hearing started 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 could I walk down the street with members of the general public thinking I'm a bully and a criminal - all the things I went into the police to challenge.

'My profession is gone. I'm never going to get another job, due to the fact that who would provide me one. My life is messed up. They've broken me.'

Denise, who tells me she 'was so proud to be the other half of a law enforcement officer', went to every day of her hubby's disciplinary hearing and has been there to pick up the pieces as his life fell apart.

The couple, who have children aged 27, 18 and 8, inform me that on the day Lorne was told he was dealing with gross misbehavior charges, he didn't go home - 'because how could I tell my other half?' - however walked along Bournemouth beach up until 3am. He was too shocked to consider strolling into the sea and says he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'however can comprehend individuals who do, in this sort of scenario, because the nature of this task isolates you from individuals who aren't police, so when the carpet is pulled from under you ... you feel so alone'.

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

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

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

Their hero dad, openly lauded after plunging into the freezing River Avon to conserve a senior woman, is now making headings for all the incorrect factors.

When the very first murmurings began, suggesting this once-admired officer had actually been unfairly dealt with by 'woke' employers who were far gotten rid of from the truth of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved quickly to safeguard their position, launching damning video footage, taken from a coworker's body camera, which does certainly reveal PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

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

This video, Lorne claims, existed out of context, cherry-picked to 'not tell the complete story'.

'It was ravaging that Dorset Police could do this to me, that they might wish to ... destroy me,' he states. '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 does not show the crowd around us, whom I might see in my peripheral vision.

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

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Lorne includes: 'Dorset Police didn't even think it was necessary to call that individual as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I needed to demand it. It paints a very various picture to what happened and I thank goodness that witness was there, because otherwise I 'd think I was going mad.'

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

He admitted as much during the misconduct hearing and repeats that sentiment today. 'I must not have utilized the language I did. I'm embarrassed and saddened that I did that, which it's out there for everyone to see. But the essence of what happened was, regrettably necessary. That was an arrest that needed to be made and I made a judgment call.

'Could I have done it differently? Naturally, but eventually I took a knife off the streets. Another police force has this slogan, 'Take a knife