All week, the homages have poured in. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle haven't hesitated to come forward. One female's account of how her kid's life was saved by his 'generosity and mankind' and determination to 'surpass what is anticipated of a policeman' is especially moving.

She discussed how the struggling teen lost his method life and became known to cops, who were forever needing to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a daddy of 3, who wound up talking her boy down from 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 sculpt one out by setting up work experience, even though this was not his job. 'We require more officers like PC Castle, not fewer,' this grateful mom concluded.

'That one made me well up,' says Lorne, 46, who is being in his living space in a quiet domestic street in Bournemouth, sorting through the countless messages he has actually gotten this week - some from strangers, however others from those he straight helped.

He seems rather overloaded and a little teary (extremely uncharacteristic, 'or it was before all this', according to his other half Denise), by all the good things individuals have actually been stating about him.

'It's blown me away, to be sincere,' he says. 'To have individuals come back to stand up for me. I'm not utilized to this, however it's truly touching.' He reads on, on the brink of tears: 'If I 'd passed away, you could not have actually got better tributes.'

And in a manner he has died, because, as he explains: 'I'm not dead however the law enforcement officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'

Who killed PC Castle? Well, according to his employers at Dorset Police, the deadly wound was totally self-inflicted. Recently, he was fired - 'in a manner that was ruthless. Alan Sugar fires people in a better method,' he says - after being found guilty of gross misbehavior.

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

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

He detained a teenage suspect - later on discovered to have actually remained in possession of a knife - without displaying appropriate 'courtesy or regard'. While grappling on the ground with the 15-year-old, who was resisting arrest in January last year, 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 child off to bed, Lorne, newly unemployed, still can't quite believe that finger-pointing helped lose him his whole 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 had to answer during a 'disastrous and humiliating' three-day gross misconduct hearing.

'For a cops officer, the idea of gross misbehavior is just the worst, but one of the important things I was asked was if I hadn't heard the suspect say that he hadn't done anything. Did I not take a look at him and think he might be telling the reality?' 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 withstanding arrest state they haven't done anything. I indicate a kid knows that.

'Let's put this into context. We were examining an assault. I have actually detained him. He has withstood. I'm struggling on the ground with him. There is a crowd gathering. I'm attempting to include this scenario however my 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 states she 'was so proud to be the spouse of a policeman', participated in every day of her husband's disciplinary hearing and has been there to select up the pieces as his life fell apart

The shock and bewilderment in his living room is palpable. As is the large disbelief. 'I imply, the audacity of even asking me that. But I knew even before the gross misbehavior hearing began 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 would not have the ability to do it.

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

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

Denise, who informs me she 'was so happy to be the partner of a law enforcement officer', attended every day of her partner's disciplinary hearing and has actually been there to choose up 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 told he was facing gross misbehavior charges, he didn't go home - 'due to the fact that how could I inform my better half?' - however strolled along Bournemouth beach until 3am. He was too stunned to consider strolling into the sea and states he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'however can comprehend people who do, in this sort of situation, since the nature of this task isolates you from individuals who aren't authorities, so when the carpet is pulled from under you ... you feel so alone'.

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

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

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

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

When the very first murmurings started, recommending this once-admired officer had actually been unfairly treated by 'woke' employers who were far gotten rid of from the reality of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved rapidly to safeguard their position, launching damning video footage, drawn from an associate's body web cam, which does indeed show PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

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

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

'It was ravaging that Dorset Police might do this to me, that they could desire to ... damage me,' he states. 'What that selective footage didn't reveal was the after-effects - when this suspect continued to resist arrest.

'It took 4 officers to get him in handcuffs. That footage 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 happening there and it came from a member of the public who was concerned about me. They contacted us to say that there was an officer struggling, who appeared he needed back up.'

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Lorne includes: 'Dorset Police didn't even believe it was required to call that person as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I had to demand it. It paints a very different image to what happened and I thank goodness that witness was there, because otherwise I 'd believe I was freaking.'

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

He admitted as much during the misbehavior hearing and repeats that sentiment today. 'I should not have used the language I did. I'm embarrassed and saddened that I did that, and that it's out there for everybody 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 in a different way? Naturally, however ultimately 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 career? 'I do not think that's one for me to answer,' he says, however his better half has no qualms. 'No, he did not,' Denise says securely.

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

'They have ruined a good man and taken a great policeman off the streets. I still can't believe this. This whole thing feels like such a violation.'

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

Former Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Martyn Underhill informed Radio Solent this week: 'This officer overreacted, used bad language - that's about it. We're ending up being too woke. I think Dorset Police have actually got this massively wrong. Do I think he was worthy of to lose his task? Never.'

It is particularly devastating for Lorne that it was colleagues who initially complained about his handling of that arrest. He won't talk about their involvement, however it is comprehended that the two junior officers who saw it had actually just remained in the task for six months.

It is also understood that while, initially, it did not look as if misbehavior 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 extraordinary twist, Mr Dhanda has himself been placed on restricted tasks while he is investigated over sexual misconduct accusations. 'Maybe me and him have various decision-making processes,' is all Lorne will state. So who is Lorne Castle - and how will history judge him?

His route into the police force was a little unusual. He matured in Torquay however relocated to nearby Bournemouth to go to university, where he studied law.

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

It was his deal with youths that brought him into contact with the guy who would become his coach - 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 task. He convinced him to join the police - initially as a community assistance officer, then as a PC. Denise agreed that he had actually 'discovered his location' in the police.

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

In 2017, he conserved somebody in a medical emergency then, in 2023, he plunged into the Avon, ripping off his stab vest to go into the water, eventually holding an elderly female aloft.

He states it did take place to him that he was, technically, breaking all the rules 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 professional requirements could tell me I wasn't expected 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 triumphed and he received an award from the Humane Society for that rescue.

Fellow officers 'who had held the ropes as I entered' were also applauded but, bizarrely, when it concerned the invites for the ceremony, Lorne didn't receive one.

'I 'd been placed on limited responsibilities already [after the occurrence with the teenager] and told my superiors were going to 'keep' mine until after the misconduct procedures.' He was furious, and deeply harmed. '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 welcomed 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 culprit, last seen driving an e-scooter, who was presumed of assaulting a senior guy and a teenage kid.

Staff at a local McDonald's had been frightened enough to close their doors before calling for aid. Earlier that day, law enforcement officer had been alerted that there had actually been a large gang fight and potential 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 volunteered, 'because that's what you do'.

The suspect was rapidly discovered and when he resisted arrest, Lorne 'took him down to the ground'.

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

Did PC Castle lose control? He stresses how stuffed that situation was. 'As a cops officer, you go into the unidentified and there is a fear there.' He mentions that his bosses launched a damning statement which consistently described 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 scared of getting caught.

'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 held back since of his age? That is doing a disservice to every household who have actually lost somebody because they were stabbed by a teenager. No, I did not know that he had a knife, but it was my task to do a threat evaluation and I need to state my assessment was area on.'

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

'Do you understand just 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 movement you can be discussing 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 thinking that it had been a catastrophe?

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

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

But the feeling that he has actually been pulled 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 ever attempted to do and I have been openly destroyed for it.' Lorne explains having to hand over his badge as 'the worst moment in my life'.

He says he is practically scared to walk the streets he once patrolled now. 'Dorset Police have put a target on my head. I do not even know if we can remain here, as a household, which is heartbreaking since this is our community.'

The only upside is the swell of support from those who think he has been mistreated. 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 just humbled, but so grateful. It means I can pay the mortgage, for now anyway.'

He goes back to those messages once again. One sent on Facebook comes from another mom, Sarah Robinson, who lost her son Cameron Hamilton in 2023. The

18-year-old was stabbed to death by another teen in Bournemouth. 'As the mum of Cameron Hamilton, who was killed by someone using a knife, I thank you for doing your job,' she wrote. 'I am distressed that the authorities force has lost such a great officer.'

This makes Lorne desire to sob - for himself and his household, yes, however also for those individuals he promised to serve.

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