PM's name error shows 'no respect'
Updated on 09 November 2009
The mother of a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan has accused Gordon Brown of disrespecting her son's memory by misspelling their surname in a letter of condolence.
Jacqui Janes, whose son Jamie, 20, of the 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards, was killed by an explosion on October 5, received a hand-written note from Mr Brown, which began: "Dear Mrs James", the Sun claimed.
Mrs Janes, 47, told the newspaper: "He couldn't even be bothered to get our family name right. That made me so angry. Then I saw he had scribbled out a mistake in Jamie's name. The very least I would expect from Gordon Brown is to get his name right."
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