January 31, 2013, 4:23 PM

The NYPD sergeant accused of driving a cop to suicide with her demands for sex claimed the affair was consensual - and her lover killed himself because she wanted to end the relationship, a police source said Thursday.
 
That account of the death of Officer Matthew Schindler, 39, who killed himself in his car on Long Island on Feb. 13, directly contrasts the depiction of Schindler's widow, who claims in a lawsuit that her husband was driven to suicide after the sex-crazed sergeant, Christine Hirtzel, threatened to hurt his career if he didn't sleep with her.