The man who shot John Lennon outdoors his New York City condo constructing in 1980 instructed a parole board he knew it was fallacious to kill the beloved former Beatle – however was looking for fame and had “evil” in his “heart”.

Mark David Chapman made the feedback to a board which denied him parole for a twelfth time, citing his “selfish disregard for human life of global consequence”.

Chapman, in a transcript launched by state officers on Monday underneath a freedom of knowledge request, mentioned the choice to kill Lennon was “my big answer to everything. I wasn’t going to be a nobody anymore”.

“I am not going to blame anything else or anybody else for bringing me there,” Chapman instructed the board.

“I knew what I was doing and I knew it was evil. I knew it was wrong but I wanted the fame so much that I was willing to give everything and take a human life.”

Chapman killed Lennon on the evening of December 8 1980 as he and Yoko Ono have been returning to their Upper West Side condo.

Earlier that day, Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a replica of his not too long ago launched album Double Fantasy.

Chapman, 67, instructed the board: “This was evil in my heart. I wanted to be somebody and nothing was going to stop that.”

Chapman is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York’s Hudson Valley.

He has repeatedly expressed regret throughout his parole hearings through the years.

“I hurt a lot of people all over the place and if somebody wants to hate me, that’s OK, I get it,” he mentioned on the August 31 listening to.

In denying him launch, the board mentioned Chapman’s motion left “the world recovering from the void of which you created”.

Chapman’s subsequent parole board look is scheduled for February 2024.