John Lennon's killer apologised to the singer's widow, Yoko Ono, calling the assassination an "extremely selfish act" for which he believes he "deserves" the death penalty. Mark David Chapman, 65, made the comments during a parole hearing last month which saw him denied parole for the 11th time since killing the former Beatles member in Manhattan in December 1980. Chapman shot the
Singer four times in the back as he and Ono walked into the Dakota Apartments building in the Upper West Side. According to a transcript of the parole hearing obtained by the PA news agency, Chapman told the parole board he killed Lennon, 40, for "self-glory" and claimed he thinks about the crime "all the time". The killer apologised to Lennon's family, saying: "I assassinated him... because he was very, very, very famous and that's the only reason and I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory, very selfish.