[NYPOST] The sister of the deranged ex-con accused of fatally shoving a Times Square straphanger told The Post on Monday that her sibling never should have been free to walk the streets.Josette Simon wept as she recalled she once even begged a hospital to keep her troubled brother locked up after his life was derailed by mental illness.
"He was a hardworking man, he was a giving man," Simon, 65, said through tears of her younger brother, Martial Simon, 61.
"At 14 years old, he started shoveling snow. He drove a taxicab. He worked from the bottom to move up to become a manager at a parking place in Manhattan. He always liked New York.
"Somehow, in his 30s, something happened and he lost it," she said. "He kept seeing and hearing people after him. One of my sisters took him in. He stayed, and then he said, ’I have to go back to New York and start again.’ But he never made it."
The NYPD lists the subway-shove suspect’s name as Simon Martial, although his sister identified him as Martial Simon.
Josette Simon, who lives outside Atlanta, Ga., said her brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia,
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