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Ono no-no's parole

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Jul 28, 2010 Updated Jul 30, 2010

Yoko Ono will again oppose the release of the man who killed former Beatle John Lennon almost 30 years ago.

Ono has consistently and vehemently been against any suggestion of parole for Mark David Chapman - now 55 - and has again sent a letter to the parole board, her lawyer Peter Shukat told the New York Daily News.

Lennon was shot on December 8, 1980, outside the Dakota apartment building just west of Central Park as he and Ono returned home from a recording session.

Chapman is scheduled to be interviewed by a three-member panel during the week of August 9.

It will be his sixth bid for parole.

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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th...

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