Copies of the first edition of the Southern Daily Echo had to be recalled on Thursday, after the wrong picture was used with its front page story about a teenage murder victim.

The court report covered the murder trial of 17-year-old Daniel Loader, who was killed while trying to break up a fight, but the picture alongside the story showed 15-year-old Richard Bowler - who died from a brain haemorrhage four years ago.

After the mistake - due to a clerical error - was spotted, later editions were changed and copies of the first edition were removed from the shelves.

The Echo also published a front page correction and an apology on page five in Friday's paper.

It said: "In yesterday's early edition of the Daily Echo we published photographs on the front page and on page three relating to the murder trial over the death of Southampton teenager Daniel Loader.

"The captions on both pages indicated the pictures were of Daniel Loader. The photographs were in fact of Richard Bowler, the 15-year-old Locks Heath youngster who collapsed and died in July 2002 after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

"The publication of the incorrect photograph was because of a clerical error. The Daily Echo would like to apologise unreservedly to the families of Daniel Loader and Richard Bowler for any distress the publication of these pictures may have caused."