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All week, the tributes have actually poured in. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle haven't thought twice to come forward. One lady's account of how her boy's life was conserved by his 'compassion and humanity' and desire to 'surpass what is expected of a law enforcement officer' is especially moving.
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She discussed how the troubled teen lost his method in life and became known to authorities, who were forever having to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a daddy of 3, who ended up talking her kid below 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 organizing work experience, although this was not his job. 'We require more officers like PC Castle, not fewer,' this grateful mother concluded.

'That one made me well up,' says Lorne, 46, who is being in his living room in a peaceful domestic street in Bournemouth, sifting through the thousands of messages he has received today - some from strangers, but 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 wife Denise), by all the nice things individuals have been saying about him.

'It's blown me away, to be truthful,' he states. 'To have individuals return to stand up for me. I'm not utilized to this, however it's really touching.' He checks out on, on the edge of tears: 'If I 'd died, you could not have actually got nicer homages.'

And in a manner he has died, because, as he mentions: 'I'm not dead however the policeman I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'

Who eliminated PC Castle? Well, according to his bosses at Dorset Police, the deadly injury was completely self-inflicted. Last week, he was fired - 'in a manner that was ruthless. Alan Sugar fires individuals in a better method,' he says - after being condemned of gross misconduct.

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

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

He apprehended a teenage suspect - later found to have been in ownership 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 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 child off to bed, Lorne, freshly 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 a few of the concerns he had to respond to during a 'terrible and humiliating' three-day gross misconduct hearing.

'For a policeman, the idea of gross misconduct is simply the worst, but one of the important things I was asked was if I had not heard the suspect state that he had not done anything. Did I not take a 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 fall for the old, 'it wasn't me, guv' line. Most suspects withstanding arrest say they haven't done anything. I imply a child knows that.

'Let's put this into context. We were investigating an attack. 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 attempting to include this situation however my top priority is to make this arrest and keep everybody 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 happy to be the other half of an authorities officer', went to every day of her husband'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 large disbelief. 'I suggest, the audacity of even asking me that. But I knew even before the gross misbehavior 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 general public thinking I'm a bully and a punk - all the important things I went into the authorities force to challenge.

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

Denise, who informs me she 'was so proud to be the better half of a policeman', went to every day of her other half's disciplinary hearing and has actually been there to get the pieces as his life fell apart.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'It took four officers to get him in handcuffs. That 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 taking place there and it came from a member of the general public who was concerned about me. They contacted us to state that there was an officer struggling, who looked as if he needed back up.'

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Lorne adds: 'Dorset Police didn't even think it was required to call that individual as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I had to demand it. It paints an extremely various image to what occurred and I thank goodness that witness existed, because otherwise I 'd believe I was freaking.'

This is an exceptionally uncomfortable - and dissentious - case. There is no concern 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 belief today. 'I ought to not have utilized 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 took place was, regrettably needed. That was an arrest that required to be made and I made a judgment call.

'Could I have done it differently? Naturally, however ultimately I took a knife off the streets. Another cops force has this slogan, 'Take a knife