All week, the homages have gathered. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle have not been reluctant to come forward. One lady's account of how her kid's life was saved by his 'kindness and mankind' and determination to 'exceed what is expected of a policeman' is particularly moving.

She wrote about how the distressed teen lost his method life and became known to cops, who were permanently having to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a dad of 3, who ended up talking her young boy below the ledge, in a metaphorical sense as well as a literal one.

Not just did he make the teen see that he had a future, he helped him sculpt one out by arranging work experience, although this was not his task. 'We require more officers like PC Castle, not fewer,' this grateful mom concluded.

'That one made me well up,' says Lorne, 46, who is sitting in his living space in a quiet domestic street in Bournemouth, sorting through the thousands of messages he has gotten today - some from strangers, but others from those he straight helped.

He appears rather overwhelmed and a little teary (really uncharacteristic, 'or it was before all this', according to his other half Denise), by all the good things people have been stating about him.

'It's blown me away, to be truthful,' he states. 'To have individuals come back to defend me. I'm not utilized to this, but it's really touching.' He checks out on, on the brink of tears: 'If I 'd died, you couldn't have got nicer homages.'

And in such a way he has actually passed away, since, as he points out: 'I'm not dead but the law enforcement officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'

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

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

His criminal offense? One that was considered so major that it erased 10 years of unblemished service including citations for bravery.

He detained a teenage suspect - later on found to have actually remained in ownership of a knife - without displaying sufficient 'courtesy or respect'. While grappling on the ground with the 15-year-old, who was withstanding arrest in January last year, 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, recently out of work, still can't rather think that finger-pointing helped lose him his entire profession.

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

'For a law enforcement officer, the concept of gross misconduct is just the worst, but among the important things I was asked was if I hadn't 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 succumb to the old, 'it wasn't me, guv' line. Most suspects resisting arrest state they have not done anything. I suggest a kid understands that.

'Let's put this into context. We were investigating an assault. I have actually 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 circumstance 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 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 proud to be the partner of a policeman', attended every day of her other half's disciplinary hearing and has actually existed to get the pieces as his life broke down

The shock and bewilderment in his living space is palpable. As is the sheer disbelief. 'I suggest, the audacity of even asking me that. But I knew even before the gross misconduct hearing began 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 public thinking I'm a bully and a goon - all the important things I entered into the police to challenge.

'My career is gone. I'm never ever going to get another task, because who would give me one. My life is ruined. They've broken me.'

Denise, who informs me she 'was so happy to be the other half of a law enforcement officer', attended every day of her hubby'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, tell me that on the day Lorne was informed he was dealing with gross misconduct charges, he didn't go home - 'because how could I tell my better half?' - but strolled along Bournemouth beach till 3am. He was too stunned to consider walking into the sea and states he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'however can understand individuals who do, in this sort of scenario, since 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 actually seen him 'diminish, become somebody who simply isn't Lorne'.

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

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

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

When the very first murmurings started, suggesting this once-admired officer had been unfairly dealt with by 'woke' bosses who were far eliminated from the reality of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved rapidly to protect their position, releasing damning video footage, taken from a colleague's body webcam, which does certainly show PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

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

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

'It was devastating that Dorset Police could do this to me, that they might desire to ... destroy me,' he says. 'What that selective video footage didn't show was the after-effects - when this suspect continued to resist arrest.

'It took four officers to get him in handcuffs. That video doesn't reveal the crowd around us, whom I could see in my peripheral vision.

'There was just one 999 call made about what was happening there and it originated from a member of the public who was concerned about me. They contacted us to state that there was an officer having a hard time, who appeared he required back up.'

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Lorne includes: '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 a very different image to what occurred and I thank goodness that witness was there, due to the fact that otherwise I 'd think I was freaking.'

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

He confessed as much throughout the misbehavior hearing and repeats that belief today. 'I need to not have actually used 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, 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 ultimately I took a knife off the streets. Another police 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 think that's one for me to answer,' he states, but his better half has no qualms. 'No, he did not,' Denise states securely.

'They headed out to string him up. Once they chose that they were opting for gross misbehavior, they went searching for things to support that. I sat there and could not believe what they were doing.

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

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

Former Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Martyn Underhill informed Radio Solent today: 'This officer overreacted, used bad language - that has to do with it. We're becoming too woke. I believe Dorset Police have actually got this massively incorrect. Do I believe he was worthy of to lose his job? Never.'

It is especially ravaging for Lorne that it was coworkers who first grumbled about his handling of that arrest. He won't talk about their involvement, but it is comprehended that the 2 junior officers who witnessed it had just been in the task for six months.

It is likewise understood that while, initially, it did not appear misconduct charges were likely, the choice was required to initiate them. Lorne was notified of this by Superintendent Ricky Dhanda, head of Professional Standards.

In an amazing twist, Mr Dhanda has himself been put on restricted responsibilities while he is investigated over sexual misbehavior allegations. '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 route into the police was a little uncommon. He grew up in Torquay but transferred to nearby Bournemouth to go to university, where he studied law.

A keen sportsman and martial arts specialist, he satisfied Denise - who would go on to be a world champ Muay Thai fighter - and they established a sports academy together.

It was his deal with young individuals that brought him into contact with the male who would become his coach - former 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 convinced him to join the authorities - initially as a neighborhood support officer, then as a PC. Denise agreed that he had 'found his place' in the police.

Undoubtedly, it was a career at which Lorne excelled. In 2021, he was named community officer of the year, after having been twice granted commendations.

In 2017, he saved 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 up.

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

'It did go through my mind that expert standards could tell me I wasn't expected to enter, that I was attempting 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 also applauded but, bizarrely, when it pertained to the invitations for the ceremony, Lorne didn't get one.

'I 'd been put on limited duties by then [after the incident with the teenager] and informed my superiors were going to 'hold onto' mine up until after the misconduct procedures.' 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 party you weren't welcomed to.'

On the night of the controversial arrest, Lorne was at completion of an 11-hour shift when a call was available in about a violent masked transgressor, last seen driving an e-scooter, who was believed of attacking an elderly guy and a teenage kid.

Staff at a local McDonald's had actually been terrified enough to close their doors before calling for help. Earlier that day, law enforcement officer had been cautioned that there had actually been a big gang battle and possible suspects were still at large.

There was no reason for Lorne to take that call - the approaching shift could have managed it - however he says he offered, '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 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 problematic.

Did PC Castle lose control? He stresses how fraught that circumstance was. 'As a policeman, you enter into the unknown and there is a worry there.' He mentions that his employers launched a damning declaration which consistently described the suspect as a 15-year-old young boy.

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

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

The knife that fell from the suspect's waistband was little but potentially lethal, especially at close quarters, he mentions.

'Do you know just how much area you need for a machete to be deadly? Quite a lot, since 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 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 believing that it had been a catastrophe?

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

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

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

He states he is nearly afraid to walk the streets he once patrolled now. 'Dorset Police have put a target on my head. I do not even understand if we can remain here, as a family, which is heartbreaking due to the fact that this is our community.'

The only benefit is the swell of assistance from those who think he has been mistreated. A GoFundMe account, set up by Chris Amey, the guy who encouraged him to sign up with 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 comes from another mother, Sarah Robinson, who lost her child 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 using a knife, I thank you for doing your job,' she composed. 'I am distressed that the authorities force has actually lost such an excellent officer.'

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

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