(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 22 - John Lennon's killer, MarkChapman, apologized to widow Yoko Ono, forty years after the murder and after he was denied parole for the eleventh time.
The BBC reports.
"I killed him for fame, it was a very very selfish act and I am sorry for the pain I caused her," said Chapman of the Japanese artist.
On December 8, 1980, Chapman shot Lennon four times outside his New York apartment.
"I didn't kill him for his personality but because he was very very very very famous," he explained, calling murder a "despicable" action worthy of the death penalty that was abolished in New York State in 2007.
Yoko Ono has always opposed in court the assassin's attempts to obtain parole.
In 2015, in an interview with the Daily Beast, she confessed that she was very worried that Chapman could move freely.
"He did it once, he could do it again. To me, to Sean (the son), to anyone else," the artist then said.
In the sentence that rejected for the umpteenth time the request for conditional release, we read that this "is incompatible with the well-being of society".
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