New York Daily News

Hubby sues in rail killing

- Victoria Bekiempis

THE HUSBAND of a woman shoved in front of a Times Square subway train claims in a new lawsuit his wife’s alleged killer was wrongly released from Bellevue Hospital before the crime.

Robert Watton filed a lawsuit Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court over his wife Connie Watton’s death.

Melanie Liverpool-Turner, who has schizophre­nia, is charged with murder for allegedly pushing Watton in front of an oncoming No. 1 train on Nov. 7, 2016.

Less than a month before Watton's death, cops took LiverpoolT­urner to Bellevue after she falsely claimed she pushed someone off the Union Square subway platform on Oct. 19, 2016. Police deemed that case a suicide.

Sources said that her possible exposure to that suicide may have given her ideas about death by train.

Liverpool-Turner has a history of mental illness, including schizophre­nia, bipolar, depression and “hearing voices,” sources said.

Watton is suing Liverpool-Turner and the city Health & Hospitals Corporatio­n, which runs Bellevue, as well as the New York City Transit Authority, for unspecifie­d damages.

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