Image: Shutterstock.com | Above: A photograph of the 'Penny Lane' street sign in Liverpool. The street name featured in a song by the English rock band The Beatles.
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He had started the trial claiming insanity, was judged sane, pleaded not guilty, was supposedly persuaded by God to confess, and now, after a trial where he had mainly promoted the literary merits of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, he had been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years imprisonment.
But the man who killed his idol to be famous will probably never be released...