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Mark Chapman eligible for parole next month
6 September 2000

The convicted, admitted murderer of one time Beatle John Lennon, Mark Chapman, becomes eligible for his first parole hearing in October. If Chapman’s request is approved he could walk by December.
The now 45 year old, who shot Lennon four times shortly after posing with him and getting his autograph on 8 December 1980, has been working as a clerk in the Attica state prison’s law library. During his incarceration he expressed some faint and baldly selfish remorse: “It was an end of innocence for that time. And I regret being the one that ended it.”
The BBC reports that Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono, who still lives in the couple’s Dakota building apartment on Manhattan, worries for the safety of her 24 year old son Sean should Chapman be released. Ono spokesman Elliot Mintz expects she’ll testify before the parole board. “I’m sure she will have something to say on the subject,” he said. | BBC story | | Instant Karma - John Lennon fan site | | top of page |

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