LENNON "WOULD FREE ME"
The man who killed John Lennon said yesterday the former Beatle would want him to be released from jail.
Mark Chapman is eligible for parole next week, 20 years after he gunned down Lennon outside his New York home.
Chapman, 45, said he planned to become a Christian preacher and believed Lennon would support his application for parole.
"I think he would be liberal, I think he would care. I think he would probably want to see me released," he said.
Chapman also revealed his thoughts on 8 December, 1980, the day he assassinated Lennon as the singer emerged from a limousine outside his apartment with his wife, Yoko Ono.
"When I met him and when I shot him... it just wasn't real," he said. "A voice in my head said: 'Do it, do it, do it, do it.' I aimed at his back and pulled the trigger five times and all hell broke loose in my mind," he said.