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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has apologised to the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan after she accused him of disrespect in a sloppily-written letter of condolence, his office said on Monday.
Jacqui Janes, whose son Jamie, 20, of the 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards, was killed by an explosion in Afghanistan in October, received a hand-written note from Brown, which began: “Dear Mrs. James”.
“He couldn’t even be bothered to get our family name right. That made me so angry,” Janes told The Sun newspaper. “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. The letter was scrawled so quickly I could hardly even read it and some of the words were half-finished. It’s just disrespectful.” Reacting to the row, Brown’s official spokesman said the premier was “mortified.” “As soon as the prime minister was told about this he personally contacted the mother to make absolutely clear that he never meant any offence,” said the spokesman.
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