All week, the homages have actually poured in. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle have not hesitated to come forward. One lady's account of how her son's life was saved by his 'generosity and mankind' and determination to 'exceed what is expected of an authorities officer' is particularly moving.

She blogged about how the struggling teen lost his method life and became known to authorities, who were permanently needing to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a father of 3, who ended up talking her young boy down from the ledge, in a metaphorical sense along with an actual one.

Not only did he make the teen see that he had a future, he helped him carve one out by arranging work experience, although this was not his task. 'We require 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 quiet domestic street in Bournemouth, sifting through the countless messages he has gotten this week - some from complete strangers, however others from those he directly helped.

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

'It's blown me away, to be honest,' he states. 'To have individuals come back to defend me. I'm not used to this, however it's truly touching.' He keeps reading, on the brink of tears: 'If I 'd died, you could not have got nicer tributes.'

And in a method he has passed away, because, as he explains: 'I'm not dead but the cops officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'

Who killed PC Castle? Well, according to his employers at Dorset Police, the deadly injury was totally self-inflicted. Recently, he was fired - 'in a manner that was harsh. Alan Sugar fires individuals in a better way,' he states - after being condemned of gross misconduct.

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

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

He jailed a teenage suspect - later discovered to have been in belongings of a knife - without showing adequate 'courtesy or respect'. While grappling on the ground with the 15-year-old, who was resisting arrest in January in 2015, PC Castle yelled, swore and pointed his finger at the suspect, who was professing 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 believe that finger-pointing assisted lose him his entire profession.

He raises the offending 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 needed to answer throughout a 'disastrous and embarrassing' three-day gross misbehavior hearing.

'For a law enforcement officer, the concept of gross misconduct is just the worst, but one of the 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 think he might be telling 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 state they have not done anything. I indicate a kid knows 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 event. I'm attempting to contain this scenario 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 supposed to stop and say, 'Oh, you didn't do it? Dreadfully sorry, young Sir. Let me help you up! Tally ho! My mistake!' This is a who did have a knife.'

Denise, who states she 'was so proud to be the spouse of a policeman', went to every day of her other half's disciplinary hearing and has existed to get the pieces as his life broke down

The shock and confusion in his living room is palpable. As is the large shock. '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 includes: 'Even if I win my appeal, even if I got my task back, I would not be able to do it.

'How might I walk down the street with members of the general public thinking I'm a bully and a criminal - all the important things I entered into the police to challenge.

'My career is gone. I'm never going to get another task, due to the fact that who would offer me one. My life is messed up. They have actually broken me.'

Denise, who informs me she 'was so happy to be the other half of an authorities officer', participated in every day of her spouse'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 told he was facing gross misbehavior charges, he didn't go home - 'because how could I tell my partner?' - but walked along Bournemouth beach until 3am. He was too shocked to consider strolling into the sea and says he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'but can understand individuals who do, in this sort of circumstance, because 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 says she has seen him 'diminish, end up being someone who simply isn't Lorne'.

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

'Since all this, I have actually simply seen him alter. He breaks down now. He questions himself. It has actually been devastating to enjoy. Even the children state, 'he isn't Dad'.'

Their hero father, openly admired after plunging into the freezing River Avon to conserve an elderly woman, is now making headlines for all the incorrect factors.

When the first murmurings started, recommending this once-admired officer had been unjustly dealt with by 'woke' employers who were far removed from the reality of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved rapidly to safeguard their position, launching damning video footage, drawn from a coworker's body webcam, which does undoubtedly show PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

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

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

'It was ravaging that Dorset Police could do this to me, that they could wish to ... ruin me,' he says. 'What that selective video footage didn't reveal was the aftermath - when this suspect continued to withstand arrest.

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

'There was only one 999 call made about what was taking place 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 looked as if he needed back up.'

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Lorne includes: 'Dorset Police didn't even think it was essential to call that person as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I had to firmly insist on it. It paints a very different picture to what happened and I thank goodness that witness existed, since otherwise I 'd think I was freaking.'

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

He confessed as much throughout the misbehavior hearing and repeats that sentiment today. 'I must not have actually used the language I did. I'm ashamed and saddened that I did that, and that it's out there for everyone to see. But the essence of what happened was, unfortunately required. That was an arrest that needed to be made and I made a judgment call.

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

Did he be worthy of to lose his profession? 'I do not believe that's one for me to answer,' he states, however his other half has no qualms. 'No, he did not,' Denise states strongly.

'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 think what they were doing.

'They have actually destroyed a great male and taken an excellent policeman off the streets. I still can't think this. This whole thing seems like such a violation.'

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

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

It is particularly devastating for Lorne that it was associates who first grumbled about his handling of that arrest. He won't comment on their participation, but it is comprehended that the two junior officers who experienced it had actually just been in the job for six months.

It is likewise understood that while, at first, it did not look as if misbehavior charges were likely, the decision 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 limited duties while he is examined over sexual misconduct accusations. 'Maybe me and him have various decision-making procedures,' is all Lorne will state. So who is Lorne Castle - and how will history judge him?

His path into the cops force was a little unusual. He matured in Torquay however transferred to close-by Bournemouth to go to university, where he studied law.

An eager sportsman and martial arts professional, he satisfied Denise - who would go on to be a world champion Muay Thai fighter - and they set up a sports academy together.

It was his deal with young people that brought him into contact with the guy who would become his mentor - previous Chief Inspector Chris Amey, who had a long profession with both the Met and Dorset Police.

He met Lorne in 2013 and was impressed by his drive and dedication on a youth task. He encouraged him to join the cops - first as a community support officer, then as a PC. Denise agreed that he had 'found his place' in the police.

Undoubtedly, it was a profession at which Lorne stood out. In 2021, he was called neighborhood officer of the year, after having been two times awarded commendations.

In 2017, he saved someone in a medical emergency then, in 2023, he plunged into the Avon, duping his stab vest to get in the water, eventually holding an elderly lady aloft.

He states it did strike him that he was, technically, breaking all the rules and 'could deal with manslaughter charges' if his efforts to get the female to hold on to a life ring went incorrect.

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

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

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

'I 'd been put on restricted tasks already [after the event with the teen] and told my superiors were going to 'hold onto' mine up until after the misbehavior proceedings.' He raged, and deeply hurt. 'The other officers weren't going to go without me and I did eventually go, however it felt extremely much like being the kid at the celebration you weren't welcomed to.'

On the night of the controversial arrest, Lorne was at the end of an 11-hour shift when a call came in about a violent masked wrongdoer, last seen driving an e-scooter, who was presumed of assaulting an elderly man and a teenage kid.

Staff at a regional McDonald's had been scared enough to close their doors before calling for assistance. Earlier that day, law enforcement officer had actually been warned that there had actually been a large gang battle and potential suspects were still at big.

There was no reason for Lorne to take that call - the approaching shift might have handled it - however he says he offered, 'because 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 misbehavior hearing found no fault with the force used to take the suspect to the flooring. It was the tussle that followed that was deemed problematic.

Did PC Castle lose control? He stresses how filled that situation was. 'As a policeman, you enter into the unidentified and there is a fear there.' He points out that his bosses launched a damning declaration which repeatedly described the suspect as a 15-year-old young boy.

'The narrative was that he was terrified of me. But he never 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 have 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 lost someone since they were stabbed by a teen. No, I did not understand that he had a knife, but it was my job to do a risk evaluation and I need to say my evaluation was area on.'

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

'Do you understand how much space you need for a machete to be lethal? Quite a lot, since it requires a swing. A knife like this? With a tiny motion you can be speaking about 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 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 might have gone terribly'.'

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

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

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

The only advantage is the swell of support from those who believe he has been wronged. A GoFundMe account, set up by Chris Amey, the guy who motivated him to join the cops, was last night standing at ₤ 95,000. 'I'm simply humbled, however so grateful. It indicates I can pay the mortgage, for now anyway.'

He goes back to those messages once again. One sent out on Facebook comes from another mom, Sarah Robinson, who lost her kid 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 eliminated by someone utilizing a knife, I thank you for doing your task,' she composed. 'I am distressed that the police force has lost such a great officer.'

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

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