NEW
YORK (Reuters) - A minister in western
New York offered John
Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, a job and a place to stay following his possible release
from prison, Chapman told the New York parole board earlier this month.
Chapman, 57, is serving a prison sentence of
20 years to life for shooting the former Beatle four times in the back outside
Lennon's New York City apartment building on December 8, 1980.
Earlier this month he was denied parole for a
seventh time.
If Chapman had been granted parole and
released, he said he had been offered help by a New York minister. The two had corresponded and
had met face to face for the first time on the eve of Chapman's parole hearing,
Chapman said.
"There's a fellow in Medina, New York
and he's a minister and he's an older fellow and he has a lot of contacts in
the area and he has agreed to refurbish his upstairs apartment for me and
offered me two jobs," Chapman said, according to a transcript provided by
the parole board.
Efforts to reach the minister at his home and
church office were not successful. His son confirmed to Reuters that he had
made the offer.
Medina is a rural town about 50 miles
northeast of Buffalo near Lake Ontario.
Chapman has come up for parole every two
years since 2000 and has been turned down each time.
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