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All week, the tributes have actually put in. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle have not been reluctant to come forward. One woman's account of how her child's life was conserved by his 'kindness and humanity' and willingness to 'exceed what is expected of a police officer' is especially moving.

She blogged about how the struggling teen lost his method life and ended up being known to authorities, who were forever having to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a daddy of 3, who wound up talking her kid below the ledge, in a metaphorical sense in addition to an actual one.

Not just did he make the teen see that he had a future, he helped him sculpt one out by setting up work experience, although this was not his job. 'We need more officers like PC Castle, not fewer,' this grateful mother concluded.

'That one made me well up,' states Lorne, 46, who is sitting in his living room in a peaceful property street in Bournemouth, sifting through the countless messages he has gotten today - some from strangers, but others from those he straight helped.

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

'It's blown me away, to be honest,' he says. 'To have people return to stand up for me. I'm not used to this, but it's actually touching.' He continues reading, on the edge of tears: 'If I 'd died, you could not have got better homages.'

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

Who killed PC Castle? Well, according to his bosses at Dorset Police, the deadly wound was entirely self-inflicted. Recently, he was fired - 'in a method that was brutal. Alan Sugar fires people in a better method,' he says - after being condemned of gross misconduct.

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

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

He jailed a teenage suspect - later on found to have remained in belongings of a knife - without displaying appropriate 'courtesy or regard'. While grappling on the ground with the 15-year-old, who was withstanding arrest in January in 2015, 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 simply waved his youngest daughter off to bed, Lorne, newly unemployed, still can't quite 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 some of the concerns he had to respond to throughout a 'disastrous and humiliating' three-day gross misbehavior hearing.

'For a law enforcement officer, the concept of gross misconduct is simply the worst, but among the important 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 informing 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 resisting arrest state they have not done anything. I suggest a child knows that.

'Let's put this into context. We were examining an assault. I have actually apprehended him. He has actually withstood. I'm struggling on the ground with him. There is a crowd gathering. I'm attempting to include this circumstance but my top 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 state, 'Oh, you didn't do it? Dreadfully sorry, young Sir. Let me assist you up! Tally ho! My error!' This is a suspect who did have a knife.'

Denise, who says she 'was so happy to be the wife of a policeman', participated in every day of her hubby's disciplinary hearing and has existed to get 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 knew even before the gross misbehavior 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 wouldn't have the ability to do it.

'How could I stroll down the street with members of the 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 ever going to get another task, since who would offer me one. My life is messed up. They've broken me.'

Denise, who tells me she 'was so happy to be the wife of a police officer', participated in every day of her husband's disciplinary hearing and has actually existed to select up the pieces as his life broke down.

The couple, who have daughters aged 27, 18 and 8, inform 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 wife?' - but walked along Bournemouth beach until 3am. He was too stunned to consider strolling into the sea and says he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'however can comprehend individuals who do, in this sort of situation, due to the fact that the nature of this job isolates you from individuals who aren't authorities, so when the rug is pulled from under you ... you feel so alone'.

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

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

'Since all this, I have actually just seen him alter. He breaks down now. He doubts himself. It has been devastating to watch. Even the kids say, 'he isn't Dad'.'

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

When the first murmurings started, recommending this once-admired officer had actually been unjustly treated by 'woke' employers who were far gotten rid of from the reality of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved quickly to safeguard their position, releasing damning video footage, drawn from an associate's body webcam, which does indeed reveal PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.

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

This video, Lorne claims, existed out of context, cherry-picked to 'not tell the full story'.

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

'It took 4 officers to get him in handcuffs. That 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 originated from a member of the general public who was concerned about me. They called to state that there was an officer having a hard time, who appeared he needed back up.'

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Lorne includes: 'Dorset Police didn't even believe it was required to call that individual as a witness in my disciplinary hearing. I needed to firmly insist on it. It paints a really various picture to what happened and I thank goodness that witness existed, due to the fact that otherwise I 'd think I was freaking.'

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

He confessed as much throughout the misconduct hearing and repeats that sentiment today. 'I must not have used the language I did. I'm embarrassed and saddened that I did that, which it's out there for everyone to see. But the essence of what took place was, regrettably required. That was an arrest that needed to be made and I made a judgment call.

'Could I have done it differently? Naturally, but ultimately I took a knife off the streets. Another police has this motto, 'Take a knife