Teacher tells court she 'screamed in agony' after garda twisted her arm

The woman claims she suffered a spiral fracture of her left humerus during a 'half-hour-long interrogation' by five gardaí

The then 23-year-old teacher of physical education and biology told a High Court jury she had been arrested after getting into a 'heated' argument with her brother near Eyre Square in Galway. Stock picture

A secondary school teacher claims she “screamed out in agony” after a male garda allegedly twisted her arm until it broke following her arrest after an altercation on a night out.

Denise Callinan, at the time a 23-year-old teacher of physical education and biology, said she had been subjected to a half-hour-long interrogation by five gardaí at Mill Street Garda Station in Galway City in the early hours of October 19, 2019.