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<br>All week, the homages have gathered. Those whose lives were touched by PC Lorne Castle have not thought twice to come forward. One woman's account of how her boy's life was conserved by his 'kindness and humanity' and willingness to 'exceed what is expected of a cops officer' is especially moving.<br> |
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<br>She wrote about how the distressed teenager lost his method life and ended up being understood to cops, who were forever needing to bring him home. It was PC Castle, himself a daddy of 3, who ended up talking her boy below the ledge, in a metaphorical sense along with an actual one.<br> |
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<br>Not only did he make the teen see that he had a future, he helped him carve one out by setting up work experience, even though this was not his task. 'We require more officers like PC Castle, not less,' this grateful mother concluded.<br> |
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<br>'That one made me well up,' states Lorne, 46, who is being in his living space in a quiet property 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 helped.<br> |
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<br>He seems rather overloaded and a little teary (really uncharacteristic, 'or it was before all this', according to his other half Denise), by all the great things individuals have been saying about him.<br> |
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<br>'It's blown me away, to be honest,' he says. 'To have individuals come back to defend me. I'm not used to this, however it's really touching.' He keeps reading, on the edge of tears: 'If I 'd passed away, you could not have actually got nicer tributes.'<br> |
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<br>And in such a way he has passed away, due to the fact that, as he mentions: 'I'm not dead however the policeman I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead.'<br> |
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<br>Who [killed PC](https://pl-property.com) Castle? Well, according to his bosses at Dorset Police, the fatal injury was completely self-inflicted. Last week, he was fired - 'in a method that was ruthless. Alan Sugar fires people in a better way,' he states - after being found guilty of gross misbehavior.<br> |
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<br>'I'm not dead however the [policeman](https://www.fidelityrealestate.com) I was is dead. PC 1399 is dead,' states Castle<br> |
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<br>His criminal offense? One that was considered so serious that it eliminated 10 years of unblemished service consisting of citations for bravery.<br> |
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<br>He apprehended a teenage suspect - later on discovered to have actually remained in possession of a knife - without displaying sufficient 'courtesy or respect'. 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 [proclaiming](https://www.cacecyluxuryhomes.co.ke) his innocence.<br> |
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<br>In the cold light of day, safe in his own home, having just waved his youngest daughter off to bed, Lorne, newly unemployed, still can't quite think that finger-pointing assisted lose him his entire profession.<br> |
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<br>He raises the angering 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 questions he needed to address during a 'devastating and humiliating' three-day gross misconduct hearing.<br> |
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<br>'For a law enforcement 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 say that he had not done anything. Did I not look at him and think he might be telling the fact?' He throws both hands up.<br> |
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<br>'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 indicate a child knows that.<br> |
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<br>'Let's put this into context. We were examining an assault. I've apprehended 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 include this circumstance however my priority is to make this arrest and keep everyone safe.<br> |
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<br>'So when he says he hasn't done anything, I'm seriously supposed to stop and say, '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.'<br> |
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<br>Denise, who says she 'was so proud to be the better half of a police officer', attended every day of her partner's disciplinary hearing and has been there to get the pieces as his life broke down<br> |
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<br>The shock and confusion in his living space is [palpable](https://www.eastpointeny.com). As is the large shock. 'I indicate, the audacity of even asking me that. But I understood even before the gross misconduct hearing started that I was walking to the gallows. And they hung me out to dry.'<br> |
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<br>He adds: 'Even if I win my appeal, even if I got my job back, I wouldn't have the ability to do it.<br> |
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<br>'How might I walk down the street with members of the general public thinking I'm a bully and a punk - all the important things I entered into the police to challenge.<br> |
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<br>'My profession is gone. I'm never going to get another task, because who would give me one. My life is messed up. They've broken me.'<br> |
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<br>Denise, who tells me she 'was so proud to be the partner of a policeman', went to every day of her spouse's disciplinary hearing and has actually existed to choose up the pieces as his life fell apart.<br> |
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<br>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 - 'due to the fact that how could I inform my partner?' - but strolled along Bournemouth beach until 3am. He was too shocked to consider strolling into the sea and says he hasn't seriously contemplated suicide 'but can understand individuals who do, in this sort of situation, because the nature of this task isolates you from people who aren't authorities, so when the carpet is pulled from under you ... you feel so alone'.<br> |
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<br>Denise states she has seen him 'diminish, become someone who just isn't Lorne'.<br> |
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<br>'My spouse is an outbound, bubbly, glass-half-full person, who is a natural leader and motivator,' she [describes](https://dreampropertiespr.com). '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.<br> |
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<br>'Since all this, I have actually simply seen him change. He breaks down now. He doubts himself. It has been ravaging to see. Even the children say, 'he isn't Dad'.'<br> |
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<br>Their hero daddy, openly lauded after plunging into the freezing River Avon to conserve a senior lady, is now making headlines for all the incorrect factors.<br> |
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<br>When the first murmurings started, suggesting this once-admired officer had actually been unfairly dealt with by 'woke' bosses who were far removed from the truth of policing at street level, Dorset Police moved quickly to safeguard their position, releasing damning video footage, taken from a colleague's body cam, which does certainly show PC Castle in a not-too-flattering light.<br> |
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<br>He's recorded informing the suspect to 'stop shrieking like a little b ** ch' and warning him: 'I'm gon na smash you'.<br> |
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<br>This footage, Lorne claims, was provided out of context, cherry-picked to 'not inform the full story'.<br> |
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<br>'It was ravaging that Dorset Police could do this to me, that they could want to ... damage me,' he says. 'What that selective video footage didn't show was the aftermath - when this suspect continued to withstand arrest.<br> |
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<br>'It took 4 [officers](https://landpointgroup.com) to get him in handcuffs. That video doesn't reveal the crowd around us, whom I might see in my peripheral vision.<br> |
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<br>'There was just one 999 call made about what was happening there and it came from a member of the general public who was concerned about me. They called to say that there was an officer having a hard time, who looked as if he needed back up.'<br> |
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<br>Lorne adds: 'Dorset Police didn't even think it was required to call that person as a witness in my [disciplinary hearing](https://jassbrar.ca). I needed to insist on it. It paints an extremely various image to what took place and I thank goodness that witness existed, due to the fact that otherwise I 'd believe I was freaking.'<br> |
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<br>This is an extremely unpleasant - and divisive - case. There is no question that Lorne made judgment errors in his handling of that arrest on January 27, 2024.<br> |
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<br>He confessed as much throughout the misbehavior hearing and repeats that 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 took place was, sadly required. That was an arrest that needed to be made and I made a judgment call.<br> |
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<br>'Could I have done it in a different way? Obviously, however eventually I took a knife off the streets. Another authorities force has this slogan, 'Take a knife |
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