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‘Most vicious’ member of biker gang that terrorized Manhattan family gets 3 1/2 years

Robert Sims, 37, "was the single most vicious assailant" in the 2013 West Side Highway attack, according to prosecutors.
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Robert Sims, 37, “was the single most vicious assailant” in the 2013 West Side Highway attack, according to prosecutors.
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A man prosecutors said was the “most vicious” of the gang of bikers that terrorized a Tribeca family was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison on Thursday.

Robert Sims, 37, stomped on Alexian Lien and tried to pull his wife out of their SUV in the 2013 caught on camera attack.

“Bitch, you’re going to get it too,” prosecutor Joshua Steinglass quoted Sims as telling Rosalyn Ng.

The couple’s two year-old daughter was in the back seat at the time.

Steinglass asked the judge to sentence Sims to eight years behind bars.

“He was the single most vicious assailant that day,” the prosecutor said.

A teary Sims told Justice Maxwell Wiley, “I made a mistake.”

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry isn’t enough. I never intended to hurt anybody,” he said.

The beatdown happened on Sept. 29, 2013, after Lien ran over one of a swarm of bikers who’d been terrorizing him while he was out for a drive on the West Side Highway.

The bikers then chased Lien and caught up to him at the W. 178th St. exit, smashing the windows of his SUV and pummeling him in front of his horrified wife and daughter.

Wiley said the prosecutors’ request for eight years was “not unreasonable” given Sims’ role in the attack, but credited the married electrician’s show of remorse.

The judge noted he’d had other defendants in the same case who hadn’t shown any — an apparent reference to Wojciech Braszczok, an undercover cop who participated in the attack.

Wiley sentenced him to two years in jail for his lesser part in the assault on Wednesday.