Was John Lennon’s killer brainwashed by FBI? How cops on murder scene thought Mark David Chapman had been ‘programmed’

WHEN Mark Chapman fired four shots into John Lennon four decades ago there seemed little doubt who was responsible for the cold-blooded murder.

Immediately after the shooting outside the former Beatles star’s New York home on December 8, 1980, the killer dropped his gun and waited for the police to arrive.

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But a new documentary series raises questions about whether Chapman could have been hypnotised or controlled by shadowy forces.

In the three-part Apple TV+ series a pal of John’s reveals for the first time that the singer’s widow Yoko Ono asked him to look into a possible conspiracy.

And he discovered that the US secret services had followed and bugged the…