Lennon's killer appeals for parole

Mark David Chapman, a former maintenance man, has spent nearly 30 years inside. He has been denied parole every two years since 2000.

Exactly when Chapman will be interviewed will depend on how quickly the parole panel works its way through a lengthy list of inmates. He was originally scheduled to appear last month but the hearing was postponed.

Chapman is serving a sentence of 20 years to life for shooting Lennon four times outside the ex-Beatle’s Manhattan apartment building in December 1980 as as he returned with Yoko Ono to their home, near Central Park .

Chapman said voices in his head told him to shoot Lennon after asking for an autograph.

Previous parole applications have been turned down. He had told them he accepted he deserved to be in prison for the “pain and suffering” he caused.

“I committed this act for attention,” he told his 2004 parole hearing. “To, in a sense, steal John Lennon’s fame and put it on myself, thinking I was a nobody at the time.”