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A former Warminster man who injured his wife so badly in Falls Township that she died was sentenced this week.
Andrew Lawrence Ryan, 34, was sentenced by Bucks County Judge Brian McGuffin to 10 to 30 years in state prison after pleading no contest to third-degree murder Thursday at the Justice Center in Doylestown Borough.
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He was already serving seven to 20 years behind bars after previously pleading no contest to aggravated assault and other offenses all stemming from the incident that injured his wife and eventually led to her death in April 2019.
Authorities said that Andrew Ryan and his wife Robin Ryan were “bickering” on the evening of July 24, 2017 after grabbing a few drinks as they drove in Andrew Ryan’s silver Ford pickup truck along Lincoln Highway near Oxford Valley Road in Falls Township.
During the disagreement, Robin Ryan fell out of the moving pickup truck with a landscaping trailer attached. Robin Ryan hit the pavement and ended up being struck by the truck’s landscaping trailer.
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Andrew Ryan, according to police, kept driving as passing motorists stopped to aid a severely injured Robin Ryan.
Robin Ryan was rushed to the hospital and never left a medical facility. Robin Ryan was kept alive by medical assistance. She was using feeding and tracheostomy tubes leading up to her death.
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Shortly after incident, a Pennsylvania State Police trooper in Falls Township stopped Andrew Ryan on Trenton Road near Elmwood Road.
Andrew Ryan told detectives he was intoxicated at the time and downed four beers and two shots of tequila before driving.
The couple were married in 2015 and had a young daughter at the time of the incident.
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Robin Ryan’s aunt, grandmother, and former neighbors attended Thursday’s sentencing and provided statements about how the young mother’s death hit their family.
“The effects of this incident has disrupted our family life forever,” Robin Ryan’s aunt Martha McMillan said Thursday.
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The couple’s toddler daughter has since been adopted by McMillian, the victim’s family member said.
The judge called the crime “cold-hearted indifference to someone you say you cared about and loved.”
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“I feel terrible for Ms. Ryan’s family, knowing they’ve had to relive this horrific crime every day for years since it was committed against her,” District Attorney Matt Weintraub said. “Sadly, her death now seems to have been inevitable from the moment the defendant pushed her from his moving vehicle. I don’t know that the defendant’s additional prison sentence gives Ms. Ryan’s family any peace or finality, but I pray that it does.”
