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All week, the tributes have poured in. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle haven't thought twice to come forward. One female's account of how her kid's life was conserved by his 'generosity and mankind' and desire to 'go beyond what is anticipated of a law enforcement officer' is especially moving.

She wrote about how the distressed teen lost his method life and ended up being understood to authorities, who were forever needing to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a daddy of 3, who ended up talking her young boy below the ledge, in a metaphorical sense in addition to an actual one.

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

'That a person made me well up,' states Lorne, 46, who is sitting in his living room in a peaceful residential street in Bournemouth, sorting through the thousands of messages he has gotten this week - some from strangers, but others from those he directly helped.

He appears quite overwhelmed and a little teary (extremely uncharacteristic, 'or it was before all this', according to his wife Denise), by all the great things people have actually been saying about him.

'It's blown me away, to be honest,' he states. 'To have individuals return to stand up for me. I'm not used to this, but it's truly touching.' He keeps reading, on the brink of tears: 'If I 'd died, you could not have actually got better tributes.'

And in a method he has died, due to the fact that, as he explains: 'I'm not dead but the authorities officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'

Who eliminated PC Castle? Well, according to his bosses at Dorset Police, the deadly wound was totally self-inflicted. Recently, he was fired - 'in a manner that was ruthless. Alan Sugar fires individuals in a nicer way,' he says - after being condemned of gross misconduct.

'I'm not dead however the law enforcement officer 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 consisting of citations for bravery.

He jailed a teenage suspect - later on found to have actually remained in possession of a knife - without displaying adequate 'courtesy or regard'. While grappling on the ground with the 15-year-old, who was resisting arrest in January in 2015, 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 just waved his youngest daughter off to bed, Lorne, freshly jobless, still can't quite think that finger-pointing assisted lose him his whole profession.

He raises the upseting finger today and waggles it in front of his own nose. 'I require to holster this,' he says, despairingly. Nor can he accept a few of the concerns he needed to respond to during a 'destructive and embarrassing' three-day gross misbehavior hearing.
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'For a policeman, 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 believe he might be informing the reality?' 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 withstanding arrest say they haven't done anything. I suggest a child understands that.

'Let's put this into context. We were investigating an assault. I've apprehended him. He has actually withstood. I'm having a hard time on the ground with him. There is a crowd event. I'm trying to contain this circumstance however my priority is to make this arrest and keep everyone 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 states she 'was so proud to be the wife of a law enforcement officer', attended every day of her partner's disciplinary hearing and has been there 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 imply, the audacity of even asking me that. But I knew even before the gross misbehavior 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 wouldn't be able to do it.

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

'My profession is gone. I'm never going to get another task, due to the fact that who would offer me one. My life is messed up. They've broken me.'

Denise, who informs me she 'was so happy to be the better half of a police officer', went to every day of her spouse's disciplinary hearing and has actually been there to choose up the pieces as his life broke down.

The couple, who have children aged 27, 18 and 8, inform me that on the day Lorne was informed he was facing gross misbehavior charges, he didn't go home - 'since how could I tell my spouse?' - but walked along Bournemouth beach until 3am. He was too surprised to consider walking into the sea and says he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'however can comprehend people who do, in this sort of scenario, since the nature of this job isolates you from individuals who aren't cops, so when the rug 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 spouse is an outgoing, bubbly, glass-half-full person, who is a natural leader and motivator,' she describes. 'He's the most moralistic person I know - our children will back me up on that. And he's the sort of man who never ever employed 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 devastating to watch. Even the kids say, 'he isn't Dad'.'

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

When the first murmurings started, suggesting this once-admired officer had been unjustly dealt with by 'woke' employers who were far removed from the reality of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved quickly to protect their position, launching damning video footage, drawn from an associate's body camera, which does undoubtedly show PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

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

This video, Lorne claims, existed 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 want to ... ruin me,' he states. 'What that selective video footage didn't reveal was the after-effects - when this suspect continued to withstand arrest.

'It took 4 officers to get him in handcuffs. That video 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 occurring there and it originated from a member of the public who was concerned about me. They called to state 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 individual as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I had to firmly insist on it. It paints a really different picture to what occurred and I thank goodness that witness existed, since otherwise I 'd believe I was going mad.'

This is an exceptionally uncomfortable - and dissentious - case. There is no concern 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 must 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 took place was, sadly essential. That was an arrest that needed to be made and I made a judgment call.

'Could I have done it differently? Naturally, but ultimately I took a knife off the streets. Another police force has this motto, 'Take a knife; Save a Life'. My force said, 'Take a knife; Get your P45'.'

Did he should have to lose his career? 'I don't believe that's one for me to address,' he states, but his other half has no qualms. 'No, he did not,' Denise says firmly.

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

'They have damaged an excellent man and taken an excellent policeman off the streets. I still can't think this. This entire thing seems like such an infraction.'

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 informed Radio Solent today: 'This officer overreacted, utilized bad language - that's about it. We're becoming too woke. I believe Dorset Police have got this massively incorrect. Do I believe he was worthy of to lose his job? Absolutely not.'

It is particularly devastating for Lorne that it was associates who first complained about his handling of that arrest. He will not discuss their participation, however it is comprehended that the 2 junior officers who witnessed it had just been in the job for 6 months.

It is also understood that while, at first, it did not appear misconduct charges were likely, the decision was required to initiate them. Lorne was informed of this by Superintendent Ricky Dhanda, head of Professional Standards.

In a remarkable twist, Mr Dhanda has himself been put on restricted responsibilities while he is examined over sexual misconduct allegations. '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 authorities 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 expert, he satisfied 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 young individuals that brought him into contact with the male who would become his coach - previous Chief Inspector Chris Amey, who had a long career with both the Met and Dorset Police.

He fulfilled Lorne in 2013 and was impressed by his drive and devotion on a youth task. He convinced him to join the police - first as a neighborhood support officer, then as a PC. Denise agreed that he had actually 'discovered his place' in the cops.

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

In 2017, he conserved someone in a medical emergency situation then, in 2023, he plunged into the Avon, duping his stab vest to get in the water, ultimately holding a senior woman up.

He states it did strike him that he was, technically, breaking all the rules and 'could deal with murder charges' if his attempts to get the lady to stick to a life ring went incorrect.

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

But his desire to do the right 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 commended but, bizarrely, when it concerned the invitations for the ceremony, Lorne didn't receive one.

'I 'd been put on restricted duties by then [after the incident with the teenager] and told my superiors were going to 'keep' mine up until after the misconduct procedures.' He was furious, 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 kid at the celebration 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 offender, last seen driving an e-scooter, who was believed of attacking an elderly guy and a teenage boy.

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

There was no factor for Lorne to take that call - the oncoming shift could have handled it - however he states 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 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 worries how filled that circumstance was. 'As an authorities officer, you go into the unidentified and there is a worry there.' He explains that his employers released a damning declaration which consistently referred to the suspect as a 15-year-old boy.

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

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

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

'Do you understand just how much area you need for a machete to be deadly? Quite a lot, because it requires a swing. A knife like this? With a small motion 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 problem 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 could have gone terribly'.'

He won't criticise the junior officers who raised the grievance, other than 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 let down by his superiors is clear. 'I thought we were all working towards the same thing, which is keeping our neighborhood safe. That's all I have ever attempted to do and I have been openly ruined for it.' Lorne describes needing to hand over his badge as 'the worst minute in my life'.

He states he is practically afraid to walk the streets he when patrolled now. 'Dorset Police have actually put a target on my head. I do not even understand if we can remain here, as a household, which is heartbreaking because this is our neighborhood.'

The only upside is the swell of assistance from those who believe he has been wronged. A GoFundMe account, set up by Chris Amey, the guy who motivated him to join the cops, was last night standing at ₤ 95,000. 'I'm simply humbled, but so grateful. It indicates I can pay the mortgage, in the meantime anyhow.'

He returns to those messages once again. One sent out 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 teenager in Bournemouth. 'As the mum of Cameron Hamilton, who was eliminated by somebody using a knife, I thank you for doing your task,' she wrote. 'I am saddened that the authorities force has lost such an excellent officer.'
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This makes Lorne desire to cry - for himself and his household, yes, but likewise for those people he promised to serve.

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