All week, the tributes have gathered. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle haven't hesitated to come forward. One female's account of how her boy's life was saved by his 'generosity and humanity' and willingness to 'exceed what is expected of a policeman' is especially moving.

She wrote about how the troubled teenager lost his method life and became understood to authorities, who were forever having to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a dad of 3, who wound up talking her kid down from the ledge, in a metaphorical sense in addition to a literal one.

Not only did he make the teenager see that he had a future, he helped him sculpt one out by organizing work experience, although this was not his job. 'We require more officers like PC Castle, not less,' this grateful mother concluded.

'That one made me well up,' says Lorne, 46, who is sitting in his living space in a peaceful property street in Bournemouth, sifting through the thousands of messages he has received today - some from complete strangers, but others from those he straight assisted.

He appears rather overloaded and a little teary (very uncharacteristic, 'or it was before all this', according to his wife Denise), by all the great things individuals have been saying about him.

'It's blown me away, to be sincere,' he says. 'To have people return to stand up for me. I'm not utilized to this, however it's actually touching.' He continues reading, on the verge of tears: 'If I 'd died, you could not have got better homages.'

And in a way he has actually passed away, due to the fact that, as he points out: 'I'm not dead however the law enforcement officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'

Who eliminated PC Castle? Well, according to his managers at Dorset Police, the deadly wound was totally self-inflicted. Recently, he was fired - 'in a manner that was brutal. Alan Sugar fires individuals in a nicer method,' 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 serious that it eliminated 10 years of unblemished service including citations for bravery.

He jailed a teenage suspect - later on found to have actually remained in possession 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 last year, PC Castle shouted, 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 child off to bed, Lorne, recently jobless, still can't rather 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 require to holster this,' he states, despairingly. Nor can he accept a few of the concerns he needed to answer throughout a 'devastating and humiliating' three-day gross misconduct hearing.

'For a law enforcement officer, the idea of gross misconduct is simply the worst, however one of the important things I was asked was if I hadn't heard the suspect say that he had not done anything. Did I not take a 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 succumb to the old, 'it wasn't me, guv' line. Most suspects resisting arrest state they haven't done anything. I suggest a kid knows that.

'Let's put this into context. We were investigating an attack. I've detained him. He has actually resisted. I'm struggling on the ground with him. There is a crowd gathering. I'm attempting to contain this circumstance but my 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 say, 'Oh, you didn't do it? Dreadfully sorry, young Sir. Let me assist you up! Tally ho! My error!' This is a suspect who did have a knife.'

Denise, who states she 'was so happy to be the better half of a police officer', attended every day of her other half's disciplinary hearing and has actually existed to pick up the pieces as his life broke down

The shock and confusion in his living space is palpable. As is the large shock. 'I imply, 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 job back, I wouldn't have the ability to do it.

'How could I walk down the street with members of the general public thinking I'm a bully and a thug - all the things I went into the police to challenge.

'My career is gone. I'm never ever going to get another job, because 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 wife of an authorities officer', went to every day of her hubby's disciplinary hearing and has actually existed to pick up the pieces as his life broke down.

The couple, who have daughters 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 walked along Bournemouth beach until 3am. He was too surprised to consider strolling into the sea and states he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'however can understand people who do, in this sort of circumstance, because 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 says she has actually seen him 'shrink, become someone who just isn't Lorne'.

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

'Since all this, I have actually just seen him alter. He breaks down now. He doubts himself. It has actually been ravaging to view. Even the children say, 'he isn't Dad'.'

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

When the very first murmurings began, recommending this once-admired officer had been unjustly treated by 'woke' bosses who were far removed from the reality of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved rapidly to defend their position, launching damning video footage, taken from a coworker's body webcam, which does indeed reveal PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

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

This video, Lorne declares, was provided out of context, cherry-picked to 'not tell the complete story'.

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

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

'There was just one 999 call made about what was taking place there and it originated from a member of the general public who was worried about me. They contacted us to state that there was an officer having a hard time, who looked as if he needed back up.'

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Lorne includes: 'Dorset Police didn't even think it was needed to call that individual as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I needed to insist on it. It paints an extremely various picture to what occurred and I thank goodness that witness was there, due to the fact that otherwise I 'd think I was going mad.'

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

He confessed as much during the misconduct hearing and repeats that belief today. 'I ought 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, sadly necessary. That was an arrest that needed to be made and I made a judgment call.

'Could I have done it in a different way? Naturally, however eventually I took a knife off the streets. Another police has this slogan, '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 don't think that's one for me to answer,' he says, however his wife has no qualms. 'No, he did not,' Denise states firmly.

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

'They have actually damaged an excellent male and taken an excellent law enforcement officer off the streets. I still can't believe this. This entire thing feels like such an offense.'

There has actually 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 told Radio Solent today: 'This officer overreacted, utilized bad language - that's about it. We're becoming too woke. I think Dorset Police have got this enormously incorrect. Do I think he deserved to lose his job? Absolutely not.'

It is particularly ravaging for Lorne that it was associates who initially complained about his handling of that arrest. He will not talk about their involvement, however it is understood that the 2 junior officers who saw it had actually just been in the task for six months.

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

In an extraordinary twist, Mr Dhanda has himself been put on restricted duties while he is examined over sexual misbehavior claims. 'Maybe me and him have various decision-making procedures,' is all Lorne will say. So who is Lorne Castle - and how will history judge him?

His route into the police was a little uncommon. He matured in Torquay but transferred to close-by Bournemouth to go to university, where he studied law.

A keen sportsman and martial arts professional, he met Denise - who would go on to be a world champ Muay Thai fighter - and they set up a sports academy together.

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

He fulfilled Lorne in 2013 and was impressed by his drive and dedication on a youth job. He persuaded him to sign up with the cops - initially as a neighborhood support officer, then as a PC. Denise agreed that he had actually 'discovered his location' in the cops.

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

In 2017, he saved somebody in a medical emergency situation then, in 2023, he plunged into the Avon, duping his stab vest to go into the water, ultimately holding a senior lady up.

He says it did happen to him that he was, technically, breaking all the guidelines and 'could face manslaughter charges' if his efforts to get the woman to hold on to a life ring failed.

'It did go through my mind that expert standards might tell me I wasn't supposed to go in, that I was trying to be a hero. That is the world we operate in.'

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

Fellow officers 'who had held the ropes as I went in' were likewise applauded but, bizarrely, when it came to the invitations for the ceremony, Lorne didn't receive one.

'I 'd been put on restricted duties by then [after the occurrence with the teen] and told my superiors were going to 'hold onto' mine till after the misconduct proceedings.' He raged, and deeply injured. 'The other officers weren't going to go without me and I did eventually go, but it felt quite like being the child at the celebration you weren't invited 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 wrongdoer, last seen driving an e-scooter, who was suspected of attacking an elderly male and a teenage young boy.

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

There was no factor for Lorne to take that call - the approaching shift might have handled it - but he states he volunteered, '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 controversial. The misconduct hearing found 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 stuffed that situation was. 'As a policeman, you go into the unknown and there is a worry there.' He mentions that his employers released a damning statement which repeatedly referred to the suspect as a 15-year-old kid.

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

'And I did not know he was 15 - to ride an e-scooter you have to be 16. Even if I had known, should I have kept back since of his age? That is doing an injustice to every family who have lost somebody because they were stabbed by a teen. No, I did not know that he had a knife, but it was my task to do a danger assessment and I need to state my evaluation was area on.'

The knife that fell from the suspect's waistband was little but potentially deadly, particularly at close quarters, he explains.

'Do you understand how much area you need for a machete to be fatal? Quite a lot, due to the fact that it requires a swing. A knife like this? With a tiny motion you can be talking 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 complaint from the suspect.'

Did he go off that shift believing that it had been a disaster?

'Quite the opposite. I remember thinking about the knife and going: 'Jeez, that was close. That might have gone terribly'.'

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

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

He states he is nearly scared to walk the streets he when patrolled now. 'Dorset Police have put a target on my head. I don't even know if we can stay here, as a household, which is heartbreaking because this is our community.'

The only advantage is the swell of assistance from those who believe he has actually been mistreated. A GoFundMe account, set up by Chris Amey, the male who encouraged him to join the authorities, was last night standing at ₤ 95,000. 'I'm just humbled, but so grateful. It indicates I can pay the mortgage, in the meantime anyhow.'

He goes back to those messages once again. One sent out on Facebook originates from another mother, 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 somebody utilizing a knife, I thank you for doing your task,' she composed. 'I am distressed that the cops force has lost such a great officer.'

This makes Lorne want to sob - for himself and his family, yes, however likewise for those people he promised to serve.

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