All week, the homages have put in. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle have not been reluctant to come forward. One female's account of how her boy's life was conserved by his 'kindness and humankind' and desire to 'surpass what is anticipated of a law enforcement officer' is especially moving.

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

Not only did he make the teen see that he had a future, he assisted him carve one out by setting up work experience, even though this was not his task. 'We need more officers like PC Castle, not less,' this grateful mom concluded.

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

He appears rather overwhelmed and a little teary (really uncharacteristic, 'or it was before all this', according to his other half Denise), by all the great things people have 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 used to this, however it's truly touching.' He reads on, on the edge of tears: 'If I 'd died, you couldn't have actually got better homages.'

And in such a way he has passed away, since, as he explains: 'I'm not dead however the authorities officer I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'

Who killed PC Castle? Well, according to his bosses at Dorset Police, the fatal wound was totally self-inflicted. Last week, he was fired - 'in a method that was harsh. Alan Sugar fires individuals in a nicer method,' he states - after being found guilty of gross misbehavior.

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

His criminal offense? One that was deemed so severe that it eliminated 10 years of unblemished service consisting of citations for bravery.

He apprehended a teenage suspect - later discovered to have actually been in belongings of a knife - without showing appropriate 'courtesy or respect'. While grappling on the ground with the 15-year-old, who was resisting arrest in January last year, PC Castle shouted, 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, newly unemployed, still can't rather think that finger-pointing assisted lose him his whole career.

He raises the angering finger today and waggles it in front of his own nose. 'I require to holster this,' he says, despairingly. Nor can he accept some of the concerns he needed to answer throughout a 'devastating and humiliating' three-day gross misconduct hearing.

'For an authorities officer, 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 take a look at him and believe he might be telling the reality?' He tosses both hands up.

'Were they seriously asking me why I didn't succumb to the old, 'it wasn't me, guv' line. Most suspects resisting arrest state they have not done anything. I imply a child knows that.

'Let's put this into context. We were investigating an assault. I've detained him. He has resisted. I'm struggling on the ground with him. There is a crowd gathering. I'm trying to include this circumstance but my concern is to make this arrest and keep everyone 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 partner of a law enforcement officer', attended every day of her partner's disciplinary hearing and has actually been there to pick up the pieces as his life broke down

The shock and bewilderment in his living room is palpable. As is the large disbelief. 'I suggest, the audacity of even asking me that. But I knew even before the gross misbehavior hearing began 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 task back, I wouldn't be able to do it.

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

'My profession is gone. I'm never going to get another task, since who would give me one. My life is ruined. They have actually broken me.'

Denise, who informs me she 'was so proud to be the better half of an authorities officer', went to every day of her partner's disciplinary hearing and has actually been there to pick up the pieces as his life broke down.

The couple, who have children aged 27, 18 and 8, tell me that on the day Lorne was informed he was dealing with gross misconduct charges, he didn't go home - 'since how could I inform my wife?' - however walked along Bournemouth beach up until 3am. He was too stunned to think about strolling into the sea and states he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'however can understand people who do, in this sort of circumstance, due to the fact that the nature of this job isolates you from people who aren't cops, so when the carpet is pulled from under you ... you feel so alone'.

Denise says she has seen him 'shrink, become somebody who just isn't Lorne'.

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

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

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

When the very first murmurings began, recommending this once-admired officer had actually been unfairly dealt with by 'woke' managers 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, taken from a coworker's body web cam, which does indeed reveal 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 claims, was provided out of context, cherry-picked to 'not tell the complete story'.

'It was devastating that Dorset Police could do this to me, that they could want to ... damage me,' he states. 'What that selective video didn't reveal was the aftermath - when this suspect continued to resist arrest.

'It took four officers to get him in handcuffs. That video footage does not reveal the crowd around us, whom I might see in my peripheral vision.

'There was only one 999 call made about what was taking place there and it came from a member of the general public who was worried about me. They called to state that there was an officer having a hard time, who looked as if he needed back up.'

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Lorne includes: 'Dorset Police didn't even believe it was necessary to call that individual as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I needed to firmly insist on it. It paints an extremely various photo to what took place and I thank goodness that witness existed, because otherwise I 'd think I was going mad.'

This is an incredibly troubling - and divisive - case. There is no question 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 belief today. 'I should not have utilized the language I did. I'm ashamed and saddened that I did that, and that it's out there for everybody to see. But the essence of what happened was, sadly needed. That was an arrest that needed to be made and I made a judgment call.

'Could I have done it in a different way? Of course, however ultimately I took a knife off the streets. Another police force has this motto, 'Take a knife