Chapman shot Lennon to ‘steal his fame’

JOHN LENNON’s murderer Mark Chapman told a parole board that he killed the legendary Beatle to “steal” his fame.

Chapman, who was denied parole earlier this month, told the hearing that due to his crime he was “a bigger nobody than I was before”.

According to a transcript of the hearing, released last night by the New York Division of Parole, Chapman never apologised to the panel for gunning Lennon down but said he deserved to be in jail because of the “pain and suffering” he had caused.