All week, the homages have gathered. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle have not thought twice to come forward. One female's account of how her child's life was conserved by his 'generosity and mankind' and willingness to 'surpass what is anticipated of a law enforcement officer' is particularly moving.

She discussed how the troubled teen lost his method in life and ended up being known to police, who were forever needing to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a dad of 3, who ended up talking her young boy down from 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 assisted him carve one out by arranging work experience, despite the fact that 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 sitting in his living room in a quiet domestic street in Bournemouth, sorting through the countless messages he has received today - some from strangers, but 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 been stating about him.

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

And in such a way he has actually passed away, because, as he mentions: 'I'm not dead however the law enforcement officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'

Who eliminated PC Castle? Well, according to his bosses at Dorset Police, the fatal injury was entirely self-inflicted. Last week, he was fired - 'in a manner that was ruthless. Alan Sugar fires individuals in a nicer method,' he says - after being found guilty of gross misbehavior.

'I'm not dead but the police officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead,' says Castle

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

He detained a teenage suspect - later on discovered to have been in ownership of a knife - without displaying appropriate '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 daughter off to bed, Lorne, recently jobless, still can't quite think that finger-pointing helped lose him his entire 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 address throughout a 'devastating and humiliating' three-day gross misconduct hearing.

'For an authorities officer, the idea of gross misbehavior is just the worst, but among the things I was asked was if I had not heard the suspect say that he had not done anything. Did I not take a look at him and believe 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 have not done anything. I mean a kid understands that.

'Let's put this into context. We were investigating an assault. I have actually detained him. He has actually resisted. I'm having a hard time on the ground with him. There is a crowd gathering. I'm attempting to contain this circumstance however my priority is to make this arrest and keep everybody 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 help you up! Tally ho! My error!' This is a suspect who did have a knife.'

Denise, who says she 'was so proud to be the better half of a law enforcement officer', attended every day of her partner's disciplinary hearing and has actually been there to select up the pieces as his life broke down

The shock and bewilderment in his living space is palpable. As is the large shock. 'I imply, the audacity of even asking me that. But I understood even before the gross misconduct hearing started 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 task back, I would not be able to do it.

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

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

Denise, who informs me she 'was so proud to be the other half of a law enforcement officer', went to every day of her husband's disciplinary hearing and has been there to get the pieces as his life fell apart.

The couple, who have daughters aged 27, 18 and 8, inform 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 other half?' - but strolled along Bournemouth beach up until 3am. He was too stunned to believe of strolling into the sea and says he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'but can understand individuals who do, in this sort of circumstance, due to the fact that the nature of this task isolates you from people who aren't police, so when the rug 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 describes. 'He's the most moralistic individual I understand - our children will back me up on that. And he's the sort of male who never employed sick even when he was ill.

'Since all this, I have actually simply seen him change. He breaks down now. He questions himself. It has actually been ravaging to watch. Even the children state, 'he isn't Dad'.'

Their hero daddy, openly lauded after plunging into the freezing River Avon to save a senior female, is now making headings for all the wrong factors.

When the very first murmurings began, recommending this once-admired officer had been unfairly treated by 'woke' managers 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 an associate's body webcam, which does undoubtedly show PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

He's taped telling the suspect to 'stop shouting like a little b ** ch' and warning 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 wish to ... damage me,' he states. 'What that selective video footage didn't show was the after-effects - when this suspect continued to resist arrest.

'It took 4 officers to get him in handcuffs. That footage doesn't show the crowd around us, whom I might 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 general public who was worried about me. They contacted us to say that there was an officer struggling, who looked as if he required back up.'

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Lorne adds: 'Dorset Police didn't even believe it was needed to call that person as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I had to demand it. It paints an extremely different image to what happened and I thank goodness that witness existed, due to the fact that otherwise I 'd believe I was freaking.'

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

He confessed as much during the misbehavior hearing and repeats that sentiment today. 'I must not have actually utilized 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 happened was, regrettably 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? Obviously, however ultimately I took a knife off the streets. Another police 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 do not believe that's one for me to answer,' he states, but his other half has no qualms. 'No, he did not,' Denise says strongly.

'They went out to string him up. Once they decided that they were opting for gross misconduct, they went trying to find things to support that. I sat there and could not think 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 seems like such an infraction.'

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

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

It is especially ravaging for Lorne that it was colleagues who first complained about his handling of that arrest. He will not talk about their participation, but it is understood that the two junior officers who saw it had actually only remained in the job for 6 months.

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

In an amazing twist, Mr Dhanda has himself been put on limited responsibilities while he is examined over sexual misconduct accusations. 'Maybe me and him have various decision-making processes,' is all Lorne will say. So who is Lorne Castle - and how will history judge him?

His route into the police was a little unusual. He grew up in Torquay however moved to close-by Bournemouth to go to university, where he studied law.

A keen sportsperson and martial arts specialist, he fulfilled Denise - who would go on to be a world champ Muay Thai fighter - and they established 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 task. He convinced him to join the authorities - first as a neighborhood assistance officer, then as a PC. Denise concurred that he had actually 'found his place' in the authorities.

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

In 2017, he saved somebody in a medical emergency then, in 2023, he plunged into the Avon, ripping off his stab vest to enter the water, ultimately holding an elderly woman aloft.

He states it did strike him that he was, technically, breaking all the guidelines and 'could face manslaughter charges' if his efforts to get the lady to stick to a life ring went incorrect.

'It did go through my mind that expert requirements might tell me I wasn't expected to enter, that I was trying to be a hero. That is the world we run 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 actually held the ropes as I entered' were also commended however, bizarrely, when it pertained to the invites for the event, Lorne didn't get one.

'I 'd been put on limited responsibilities already [after the occurrence with the teen] and informed my superiors were going to 'keep' mine until after the misbehavior proceedings.' He was furious, and deeply harmed. 'The other officers weren't going to go without me and I did ultimately go, but it felt really much like being the kid at the party you weren't invited to.'

On the night of the contentious arrest, Lorne was at completion of an 11-hour shift when a call can be found in about a violent masked offender, last seen driving an e-scooter, who was suspected of attacking an elderly guy and a teenage boy.

Staff at a regional McDonald's had actually been scared enough to close their doors before calling for assistance. Earlier that day, cops officers had been warned that there had actually been a big gang fight and possible suspects were still at large.

There was no factor for Lorne to take that call - the approaching shift might have managed it - but he says he volunteered, 'since that's what you do'.

The suspect was rapidly found 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 floor. It was the tussle that followed that was deemed problematic.

Did PC Castle lose control? He stresses how laden that situation was. 'As a policeman, you enter into the unidentified and there is a worry there.' He explains that his employers launched a damning declaration which consistently described the suspect as a 15-year-old kid.

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

'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 because of his age? That is doing a disservice to every family who have actually lost somebody because they were stabbed by a teen. No, I did not know that he had a knife, but it was my task to do a risk evaluation and I have to state my assessment was spot on.'

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

'Do you know how much area you need for a machete to be fatal? Quite a lot, since it needs 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 complaint from the suspect.'

Did he go off that shift believing that it had been a disaster?

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

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

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

He states he is nearly scared to stroll the streets he when patrolled now. 'Dorset Police have put a target on my head. I don't even understand if we can remain here, as a household, which is heartbreaking since this is our neighborhood.'

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

He goes back to those messages once again. One sent out on Facebook comes from another mom, Sarah Robinson, who lost her kid 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 somebody utilizing a knife, I thank you for doing your task,' she wrote. 'I am distressed that the police force has lost such an excellent officer.'

This makes Lorne desire to sob - for himself and his family, yes, but likewise for those people he promised to serve.

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