A woman has told a jury that gardaí fabricated a statement in which it is alleged she claimed her brother threatened to kill her at her home.
Rawaa Hassan, speaking through an interpreter, told the court the statement was inaccurate and that there was nothing between her and her brother, Hassan Hassan.
She said if she was afraid of him, she would have moved house and asked for Garda protection.
In reply to Dominic McGinn, prosecuting, who suggested that she had decided not to give evidence against her brother because she had either resolved her differences with him or that she was still afraid of him, she said: "I am afraid of nobody. There is no animosity between me and my brother. His children are living with me."
Hassan (38), Rivervalley Close, Swords, has pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to making a threat to kill or cause his sister serious harm at her home on August 9th, 2005.
Ms Hassan told Mr McGinn that she talked to the Garda through her son because she could not speak English.
She said she never told investigating gardaí that her brother came into her bedroom, grabbed her hand and told her, as written in the statement: "I kill you. You don't know what time I kill you."
She also denied that she told gardaí that he had said: "I give someone to give a fire in this house" and that he would break all her teeth and "give something to my eyes so I cannot see".
Ms Hassan said she did not tell gardaí that her brother also told her: "I am king. I am any time coming into this house and you cannot tell me out."
Ms Hassan did not accept Mr McGinn's suggestion that her brother told her she was not a Muslim woman. "He knows I am a Muslim, why would he tell me that?" She claimed, in evidence, that she never said that when Hassan left the house she was still afraid because her brother "was full, full crazy" and said that if she was afraid of him she would move home and look for Garda protection.
Ms Hassan did not accept a suggestion from Mr McGinn that the statement was an accurate record given directly by her to gardaí because she said she could not speak English. She agreed she signed the statement at the bottom of each page but said that she did this because she thought she was obliged to sign anything a garda wrote.
She also denied that the gardaí read the statement back to her.
The trial continues before Judge Frank O'Donnell and a jury of 10 women and two men.