A retired cop whose partner was killed more than 26 years ago demanded at a parole hearing in Midtown yesterday that two of his murderers be denied freedom next month.
“I just told them, ‘Harry didn’t have a chance to see his children grow up, he didn’t have an opportunity to see his children get married, and he didn’t get to see his grandchildren,’ ” Phil Ferrante said.
Ferrante and Harry Ryman worked together out of Coney Island’s 60th Precinct for eight years before Ryman was gunned down on Aug. 15, 1980.
Two of the three men convicted of the murder, Paul Ford and Barrington Young, both 46, are up for parole next month.
After the funeral, widow Dorothy Ryman, who died in 1999, gave Ferrante a minishield engraved with “Love, Harry.” He still wears it around his neck.
“I haven’t taken it off in 26 years,” he said.
Ryman’s five children also spoke at the hearing, as did his grandson – rookie NYPD Officer Matthew Ryman, 22.