A city has been rocked by a wave of dangerous criminals who all share a name with late Beatles legend John Lennon.

Police in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, arrested three men named after the Liverpudlian musician over the past few weeks - and another John Lennon was discovered shot dead in a suspected revenge killing.

According to The Sun, John Lennon Ribeiro Siqueira, 19, was caught on Friday (February 1) as he prepared to rob a lottery shop, with police describing him as "armed and dangerous".

Last month, 22-year-old John Lennon Fonseca Ferreira, described as one of the most wanted criminals in the region, was apprehended during an attempted robbery.

Meanwhile, convicted drug trafficker John Lennon Camargos Gomes, 22, was arrested just before Christmas, accused of five murders and two attempted murders.

Authorities put the strange phenomenon down to the popularity of the British band in South America, with thousands of mothers choosing the name after the Beatles star was gunned down in New York City.

Years later, it seems that some of those children have turned to crime in the South-East of the country.

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