All week, the tributes have gathered. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle haven't thought twice to come forward. One lady's account of how her son's life was conserved by his 'compassion and mankind' and determination to 'go beyond what is anticipated of an authorities officer' is particularly moving.

She blogged about how the troubled teenager lost his method in life and became understood to cops, who were permanently needing to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a father of 3, who wound up talking her boy below the ledge, in a metaphorical sense as well as an actual one.

Not only did he make the teenager see that he had a future, he assisted him sculpt one out by setting up work experience, even though this was not his task. 'We require more officers like PC Castle, not fewer,' this grateful mom concluded.

'That a person 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 received this week - some from complete strangers, however others from those he directly helped.

He seems quite overloaded and a little teary (extremely uncharacteristic, 'or it was before all this', according to his partner Denise), by all the nice things individuals have been saying about him.

'It's blown me away, to be truthful,' he says. 'To have people come back to defend me. I'm not utilized to this, but it's truly touching.' He continues reading, on the brink of tears: 'If I 'd passed away, you couldn't have got nicer homages.'

And in a manner he has died, due to the fact that, as he points out: 'I'm not dead but 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 fatal wound was completely self-inflicted. Recently, he was fired - 'in a manner that was harsh. Alan Sugar fires people in a better way,' he says - after being discovered guilty of gross misconduct.

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

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

He jailed a teenage suspect - later on discovered 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 screamed, 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, freshly out of work, still can't rather believe that finger-pointing helped lose him his whole profession.

He raises the upseting 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 concerns he needed to answer throughout a 'disastrous and embarrassing' three-day gross misconduct hearing.

'For a law enforcement officer, the idea of gross misconduct is just the worst, but 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 think he might be informing the fact?' He tosses 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 say they haven't done anything. I imply a child knows that.

'Let's put this into context. We were examining an assault. I have actually apprehended him. He has actually withstood. I'm having a hard time on the ground with him. There is a crowd gathering. I'm trying to contain this situation but my priority is to make this arrest and keep everyone 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 assist you up! Tally ho! My mistake!' This is a suspect who did have a knife.'

Denise, who says she 'was so happy to be the spouse of a policeman', went to every day of her husband's disciplinary hearing and has actually existed to select up the pieces as his life fell apart

The shock and bewilderment in his living room is palpable. As is the sheer shock. 'I suggest, the audacity of even asking me that. But I knew even before the gross misconduct 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 would not have the ability to do it.

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

'My career is gone. I'm never going to get another task, because 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 wife of a law enforcement officer', attended every day of her husband's disciplinary hearing and has been there to choose up 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 informed he was facing gross misconduct charges, he didn't go home - 'because how could I tell my better half?' - however walked along Bournemouth beach up until 3am. He was too shocked to think of walking into the sea and states he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'but can understand individuals who do, in this sort of situation, 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 says she has seen him 'diminish, end up being somebody who just isn't Lorne'.

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

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

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

When the very first murmurings started, recommending this once-admired officer had been unfairly treated by 'woke' employers who were far eliminated from the reality of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved quickly to defend their position, launching damning video footage, drawn from a colleague's body web cam, 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 alerting him: 'I'm gon na smash you'.

This video, Lorne declares, existed out of context, cherry-picked to 'not inform the full story'.

'It was ravaging that Dorset Police could do this to me, that they could wish to ... damage 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 doesn't reveal the crowd around us, whom I might 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 having a hard time, who looked as if 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 firmly insist on it. It paints a really various picture to what took place and I thank goodness that witness existed, due to the fact that otherwise I 'd think I was going mad.'

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

He admitted as much during the misbehavior hearing and repeats that sentiment today. 'I need to not have utilized the language I did. I'm embarrassed and saddened that I did that, which it's out there for everybody to see. But the essence of what happened was, regrettably required. That was an arrest that required 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 has this slogan, 'Take a knife; Save a Life'. My force said, 'Take a knife; Get your P45'.'

Did he should have to lose his career? 'I do not believe that's one for me to address,' he says, however his spouse has no qualms. 'No, he did not,' Denise says securely.

'They went out to string him up. Once they decided that they were going for gross misconduct, they went looking for things to support that. I sat there and could not think what they were doing.

'They have actually ruined a great male and taken a great police officer off the streets. I still can't believe this. This entire thing feels like such a violation.'

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

Former Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Martyn Underhill told Radio Solent this week: 'This officer overreacted, used bad language - that has to do with it. We're ending up being too woke. I believe Dorset Police have got this enormously incorrect. Do I think he should have to lose his job? Never.'

It is especially devastating for Lorne that it was colleagues who initially grumbled about his handling of that arrest. He will not discuss their participation, but it is comprehended that the 2 junior officers who saw it had only been in the job for six months.

It is also comprehended that while, initially, it did not appear misbehavior charges were likely, the choice was required 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 limited duties while he is examined over sexual misconduct accusations. 'Maybe me and him have different decision-making processes,' is all Lorne will say. So who is Lorne Castle - and how will history judge him?

His path into the police was a little unusual. He matured in Torquay but relocated to nearby 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 champion 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 - former Chief Inspector Chris Amey, who had a long profession with both the Met and Dorset Police.

He satisfied Lorne in 2013 and was impressed by his drive and dedication on a youth job. He convinced him to join the authorities - initially as a community assistance officer, then as a PC. Denise concurred that he had actually 'found his place' in the authorities.

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

In 2017, he conserved someone in a medical emergency situation then, in 2023, he plunged into the Avon, ripping off his stab vest to go into the water, ultimately holding a senior female aloft.

He says it did take place to 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 failed.

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

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

Fellow officers 'who had held the ropes as I entered' were also commended but, bizarrely, when it came to the invites for the ceremony, Lorne didn't get one.

'I 'd been put on restricted tasks already [after the occurrence with the teen] and told my superiors were going to 'hold onto' mine until after the misconduct procedures.' He raged, and deeply injured. 'The other officers weren't going to go without me and I did ultimately go, however it felt really much like being the child 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 can be found in about a violent masked transgressor, last seen driving an e-scooter, who was presumed of assaulting an elderly guy and a teenage boy.

Staff at a local McDonald's had been frightened enough to close their doors before calling for assistance. Earlier that day, policeman had been warned that there had actually been a large gang battle and possible suspects were still at big.

There was no reason for Lorne to take that call - the oncoming shift could have handled it - but he states he offered, 'because that's what you do'.

The suspect was quickly found and when he withstood arrest, Lorne 'took him down to the ground'.

This part is not contentious. The misconduct hearing found no fault with the force used to take the suspect to the flooring. It was the tussle that followed that was considered bothersome.

Did PC Castle lose control? He worries how laden that circumstance was. 'As a policeman, you enter into the unknown and there is a worry there.' He points out that his employers launched a damning statement which repeatedly referred to the suspect as a 15-year-old boy.

'The narrative was that he was frightened of me. But he never made a problem. I would argue that he was scared 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 due to the fact that of his age? That is doing an injustice to every family who have actually lost somebody due to the fact that they were stabbed by a teenager. No, I did not understand that he had a knife, however it was my task to do a risk assessment and I need to say my evaluation was area on.'

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

'Do you know how much area you require for a machete to be deadly? Quite a lot, since it needs 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 saying sorry for swearing. But I made that arrest. I took a knife off the streets. There was no injury. No grievance from the suspect.'

Did he go off that shift thinking that it had been a catastrophe?

'Quite the opposite. I keep in mind considering the knife and going: 'Jeez, that was close. That could have gone terribly'.'

He will not criticise the junior officers who raised the problem, other than to refer me to that witness who called 999. 'He thought I was on my own there.'

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

He states he is almost afraid to stroll the streets he when patrolled now. 'Dorset Police have put a target on my head. I don't even know if we can remain here, as a family, which is heartbreaking because this is our community.'

The only upside is the swell of assistance from those who think he has been wronged. A GoFundMe account, established by Chris Amey, the man who encouraged him to join the police, was last night standing at ₤ 95,000. 'I'm simply humbled, but so grateful. It indicates I can pay the mortgage, for now anyhow.'

He returns to those messages once again. One sent 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 eliminated by somebody using a knife, I thank you for doing your job,' she composed. 'I am saddened that the police has actually lost such a good officer.'

This makes Lorne want to sob - for himself and his family, yes, but also for those individuals he guaranteed to serve.

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