All week, the tributes have gathered. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle haven't been reluctant to come forward. One female's account of how her kid's life was saved by his 'generosity and mankind' and determination to 'go beyond what is expected of a policeman' is particularly moving.

She composed about how the troubled teen lost his method life and became known to cops, who were permanently needing to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a daddy of 3, who wound up talking her young boy below the ledge, in a metaphorical sense along with a literal one.

Not only did he make the teenager see that he had a future, he helped him sculpt one out by organizing work experience, even though this was not his job. 'We need more officers like PC Castle, not less,' this grateful mother concluded.

'That one made me well up,' states Lorne, 46, who is being in his living space in a peaceful domestic street in Bournemouth, sifting through the thousands of messages he has received today - some from complete strangers, however others from those he straight assisted.

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

'It's blown me away, to be honest,' he states. 'To have individuals return to stand up for me. I'm not utilized to this, however it's actually touching.' He reads on, on the verge of tears: 'If I 'd passed away, you could not have actually got better homages.'

And in such a way he has actually died, since, as he points out: '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 injury was completely self-inflicted. Last week, he was fired - 'in such a way that was brutal. Alan Sugar fires individuals in a better way,' he says - after being discovered guilty of gross misconduct.

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

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

He jailed a teenage suspect - later found to have remained in ownership of a knife - without showing adequate 'courtesy or regard'. While grappling on the ground with the 15-year-old, who was resisting arrest in January in 2015, PC Castle screamed, 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 rather think 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 require to holster this,' he states, despairingly. Nor can he accept some of the concerns he needed to respond to throughout a 'disastrous and humiliating' three-day gross misbehavior hearing.

'For an authorities officer, the concept of gross misconduct is just the worst, however 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 think he might be telling 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 haven't done anything. I indicate a child knows that.

'Let's put this into context. We were investigating an assault. I have actually apprehended him. He has actually resisted. I'm having a hard time on the ground with him. There is a crowd event. I'm trying to include this scenario however my concern 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 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 better half of a law enforcement officer', participated in every day of her spouse's disciplinary hearing and has actually existed to pick up the pieces as his life fell apart

The shock and confusion 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 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 might I stroll down the street with members of the general public thinking I'm a bully and a criminal - all the things I entered 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 offer me one. My life is ruined. They have actually broken me.'

Denise, who informs me she 'was so proud to be the partner of a law enforcement officer', went to every day of her hubby's disciplinary hearing and has been there to get the pieces as his life broke down.

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 inform my spouse?' - but strolled along Bournemouth beach up until 3am. He was too stunned to think about walking into the sea and states he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'however can understand people who do, in this sort of circumstance, because the nature of this task isolates you from people who aren't police, so when the carpet is pulled from under you ... you feel so alone'.

Denise states she has actually seen him 'diminish, become someone who simply isn't Lorne'.

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

'Since all this, I have actually just seen him alter. He breaks down now. He questions himself. It has actually been ravaging to view. Even the children say, 'he isn't Dad'.'

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

When the very first murmurings began, suggesting this once-admired officer had been unfairly dealt with by 'woke' bosses who were far removed from the reality of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved quickly to protect their position, releasing damning video footage, taken from a colleague's body cam, which does certainly reveal 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 declares, was presented out of context, cherry-picked to 'not tell the full story'.

'It was ravaging that Dorset Police could do this to me, that they might wish to ... damage me,' he says. 'What that selective video 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 occurring 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 needed back up.'

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Lorne includes: 'Dorset Police didn't even think it was required to call that person as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I needed to insist on it. It paints a very various photo to what happened and I thank goodness that witness was there, because otherwise I 'd believe I was going mad.'

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

He confessed as much during the misconduct 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, and that it's out there for everyone to see. But the essence of what happened was, unfortunately required. That was an arrest that required to be made and I made a judgment call.

'Could I have done it differently? Of course, but ultimately I took a knife off the streets. Another authorities force has this motto, 'Take a knife