Ma: Don’t parole punk who pushed cop to death

THE FAMILY of an NYPD officer who suffered a gruesome death nearly 30 years ago went before state parole officials Friday and urged them to show no leniency to his killer.

Officer Anthony Dwyer was just 23 years old when a rooftop struggle with burglary suspect Eddie Matos sent him hurtling down a 25-foot air shaft in 1989.

A mortally wounded Dwyer lay helpless for more than 40 minutes at the bottom of the shaft — “twisted like a pretzel,” a police official said at the time — before rescuers managed to cut him free.

He was declared dead at Bellevue Hospital shortly after he arrived.

“My son will never get a chance to come back to his family. This guy does not deserve a chance either,” the victim’s mother Marjorie Dwyer said after appearing before the state Parole Board in Midtown.

“He should stay there and rot in hell, as far as I’m concerned.”

Dwyer’s fatal plunge came after he caught up with Matos atop a building in Times Square. The suspect and three others escaped to the roof after trying unsuccessfully to open a safe inside a McDonald’s on Oct. 17, 1989.

In the ensuing confrontation, Matos hurled Dwyer down the shaft.

Matos, then 22, was convicted of murder the following year. He was sentenced to 25 years to life behind bars.

“The miscreant that shoved Anthony to his death decided now he’s sorry,” said Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.

“It’s crocodile tears. It’s not real sorrow. It’s not real repentance.”

The board denied Matos’ two previous requests to be sprung from prison. Friday marked the third time in six years that the family appeared before the board to plead that Dwyer’s killer remain behind bars.

“It’s horrible. It’s absolutely horrible,” Marjorie Dwyer said. “It’s like having a cop knock on your door again and tell you something happened to your son.”

It will be several months before the parole board rules on Matos’ latest bid for freedom.

But the recent release of copkiller Herman Bell, who was convicted of murdering two NYPD cops and one San Francisco police officer, has irked Dwyer’s family and their supporters.

“I thought, ‘Please God, this is not going to be a continuous thing that every cop killer that’s up for parole is going to get out, walk out free,” Marjorie Dwyer said. “It’s not right.”