Overview
- The Crown Prosecution Service has charged Lorne Castle, 47, under section 20 for inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent, alleging injury to Daniel Meyrick.
- The allegation stems from a June 2025 altercation outside Castlepoint shopping centre in Bournemouth, weeks after he left Dorset Police.
- Photographs showed him pinning a suspected shoplifter outside the Nike store in what reports called a citizen's arrest.
- Thames Valley Police handled the investigation on behalf of Dorset Police.
- Castle is due at Reading Magistrates’ Court on May 27 for an initial hearing that could send the case to Crown Court.