Gordon Brown has telephoned a bereaved mother to apologise after apparently misspelling the name of her dead soldier son in a letter of sympathy.
Guardsman Jamie Janes, 20, from Brighton, East Sussex, was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan in October.
In a video distributed by the Sun newspaper, his mother Jacqui called the letter a "hastily scrawled insult".
But Mr Brown said he was sorry "for any unintended mistake", adding that his writing could be "difficult to read".
Guardsman Janes, of 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards, was killed in an explosion while on foot patrol in Helmand province.
'Personal sadness'
According to the Sun, his mother Jacqui was angry when she received the prime minister's letter of condolence in which he appeared to misspell Guardsman Janes's name as "James".
The paper has reproduced the handwritten letter.READ MORE
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