All week, the homages have actually put in. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle haven't been reluctant to come forward. One female's account of how her son's life was conserved by his 'compassion and humankind' and determination to 'exceed what is anticipated of a law enforcement officer' is especially moving.
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She blogged about how the troubled teen lost his method life and became known to authorities, who were forever having to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a dad of 3, who ended up talking her boy below the ledge, in a metaphorical sense along with an actual one.

Not only did he make the teen see that he had a future, he helped him carve one out by arranging work experience, despite the fact that this was not his job. 'We need 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 room in a quiet domestic street in Bournemouth, sorting through the thousands of messages he has received this week - some from complete strangers, however others from those he straight assisted.

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

'It's blown me away, to be truthful,' he says. 'To have individuals return to defend me. I'm not used to this, but it's really touching.' He keeps reading, on the brink of tears: 'If I 'd died, you couldn't have got better homages.'

And in a manner 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 employers at Dorset Police, the fatal wound was completely self-inflicted. Recently, he was fired - 'in such a way that was brutal. Alan Sugar fires individuals in a nicer method,' he states - after being discovered guilty of gross misbehavior.

'I'm not dead but the law enforcement officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead,' states Castle

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

He detained a teenage suspect - later on found to have been in ownership of a knife - without showing sufficient 'courtesy or regard'. 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 just waved his youngest child off to bed, Lorne, recently unemployed, still can't rather believe that finger-pointing assisted lose him his entire career.

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 questions he had to answer during a 'devastating and humiliating' three-day gross misconduct hearing.

'For a police officer, the idea of gross misbehavior is just the worst, however among 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 informing the truth?' 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 have not done anything. I mean a kid understands that.

'Let's put this into context. We were investigating an assault. I've detained 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 include this scenario but 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 say, '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 an authorities officer', attended every day of her other half's disciplinary hearing and has existed to pick up the pieces as his life fell apart

The shock and bewilderment in his living space is palpable. As is the large shock. 'I mean, 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 includes: 'Even if I win my appeal, even if I got my job 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 thug - all the important things I went into the authorities force to challenge.

'My profession is gone. I'm never going to get another job, because who would offer me one. My life is destroyed. They have actually broken me.'

Denise, who informs me she 'was so happy to be the better half of a policeman', participated in every day of her husband's disciplinary hearing and has existed 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 told he was facing gross misconduct charges, he didn't go home - 'because how could I tell my better half?' - but strolled along Bournemouth beach up until 3am. He was too surprised to think about walking into the sea and says he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'but can comprehend individuals who do, in this sort of scenario, since the nature of this task isolates you from people who aren't cops, so when the rug is pulled from under you ... you feel so alone'.

Denise says she has seen him 'shrink, end up being someone who simply isn't Lorne'.

'My other half is an outbound, bubbly, glass-half-full person, who is a natural leader and motivator,' she describes. 'He's the most moralistic individual I know - our children 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 simply seen him change. He breaks down now. He doubts himself. It has actually been ravaging to watch. Even the children say, 'he isn't Dad'.'

Their hero daddy, publicly admired after plunging into the freezing River Avon to save a senior woman, is now making headlines for all the incorrect reasons.

When the very first murmurings began, suggesting this once-admired officer had actually been unjustly dealt with by 'woke' bosses who were far gotten rid of from the truth of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved rapidly to safeguard their position, releasing damning video footage, drawn from a colleague's body cam, which does indeed show PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

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

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

'It was devastating that Dorset Police might do this to me, that they might wish to ... destroy me,' he states. 'What that selective video didn't reveal was the consequences - when this suspect continued to resist arrest.

'It took four officers to get him in handcuffs. That video footage does not show 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 came from a member of the general public who was concerned about me. They contacted us to say that there was an officer struggling, who appeared he required back up.'

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Lorne adds: 'Dorset Police didn't even think it was needed to call that person as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I had to demand it. It paints a very various picture to what occurred and I thank goodness that witness was there, due to the fact that otherwise I 'd believe I was going mad.'

This is an extremely uncomfortable - 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 throughout 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 occurred was, unfortunately necessary. That was an arrest that needed to be made and I made a judgment call.

'Could I have done it differently? Of course, however eventually I took a knife off the streets. Another police force has this slogan, 'Take a knife