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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 woman's account of how her son's life was saved by his 'compassion and humankind' and desire to 'surpass what is anticipated of a law enforcement officer' is especially moving.

She composed about how the struggling teen lost his method life and became understood to cops, who were permanently needing to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a dad of 3, who ended up talking her boy down from the ledge, in a metaphorical sense in addition to a literal one.

Not only did he make the teenager see that he had a future, he assisted him sculpt 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 mom concluded.

'That one made me well up,' says Lorne, 46, who is sitting in his living room in a peaceful residential street in Bournemouth, sifting through the thousands of messages he has actually received this week - some from complete strangers, but others from those he straight assisted.

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

'It's blown me away, to be sincere,' he states. 'To have people come back to defend me. I'm not utilized to this, however it's actually touching.' He keeps reading, on the edge of tears: 'If I 'd died, you couldn't have actually got nicer tributes.'

And in a way he has actually died, because, as he explains: 'I'm not dead but the cops 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 such a way that was brutal. Alan Sugar fires people in a nicer method,' he says - after being discovered guilty of gross misbehavior.

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

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

He arrested a teenage suspect - later on discovered to have remained in belongings of a knife - without displaying sufficient '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 just waved his youngest daughter off to bed, Lorne, recently jobless, still can't quite 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 address throughout a 'disastrous and embarrassing' three-day gross misconduct hearing.

'For a policeman, the idea of gross misconduct is just the worst, but among the things I was asked was if I hadn't heard the suspect state that he had not done anything. Did I not take a look at him and think he might be telling the fact?' 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 state they have not done anything. I mean a child knows that.

'Let's put this into context. We were examining an attack. I've detained him. He has withstood. I'm struggling on the ground with him. There is a crowd gathering. I'm attempting to include this situation however my top priority is to make this arrest and keep everyone safe.

'So when he says he hasn't done anything, I'm seriously supposed to stop and state, 'Oh, you didn't do it? Dreadfully sorry, young Sir. Let me help you up! Tally ho! My mistake!' This is a suspect who did have a knife.'

Denise, who states she 'was so happy to be the spouse of a law enforcement officer', participated in every day of her spouse's disciplinary hearing and has existed to get the pieces as his life broke down

The shock and confusion in his living space is palpable. As is the large shock. 'I suggest, the audacity of even asking me that. But I understood even before the gross misbehavior hearing began that I was strolling 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 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 goon - all the important things I went into the police 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 proud to be the wife of a law enforcement officer', went to every day of her spouse's disciplinary hearing and has been there to select up the pieces as his life fell apart.

The couple, who have children aged 27, 18 and 8, tell me that on the day Lorne was informed he was dealing with gross misbehavior charges, he didn't go home - 'because how could I tell my spouse?' - but strolled along Bournemouth beach up until 3am. He was too surprised to consider strolling into the sea and states he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'but can comprehend 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 somebody who simply isn't Lorne'.

'My partner is an outbound, bubbly, glass-half-full person, who is a natural leader and incentive,' she describes. 'He's the most moralistic individual I know - our kids will back me up on that. And he's the sort of guy who never ever employed sick even when he was ill.

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

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

When the first murmurings started, suggesting this once-admired officer had 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, releasing damning video footage, taken from a colleague's body camera, which does undoubtedly reveal PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

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

This footage, Lorne claims, 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 desire to ... destroy me,' he says. 'What that selective footage didn't show was the consequences - when this suspect continued to withstand arrest.

'It took four officers to get him in handcuffs. That video doesn't 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 worried about me. They called to say that there was an officer having a hard time, who looked as if he required back up.'

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Lorne adds: 'Dorset Police didn't even believe it was necessary to call that individual as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I needed to demand it. It paints an extremely various photo to what occurred and I thank goodness that witness existed, because otherwise I 'd believe I was freaking.'

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

He admitted as much throughout the misconduct hearing and repeats that sentiment today. 'I ought to not have actually 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 essential. That was an arrest that required 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 has this motto, 'Take a knife