The brother-in-law of Scotland’s former first minister Humza Yousaf has gone on trial accused of extortion and dealing class A medicine.
The case follows the demise of a person who fell from a window in Dundee after allegedly being threatened.
Ramsay El-Nakla, 37, is on trial on the Excessive Court docket in Edinburgh and is the brother of Mr Yousaf’s spouse, Dundee councillor Nadia El-Nakla.
El-Nakla doesn’t face a cost in relation to the demise of Ryan Munro who fell from a flat on Dundee’s Morgan Road on 10 January 2024.
However he’s is accused of dealing cocaine from the flat between 9 and 11 January 2024, in addition to at one other dwelling within the metropolis, which he denies.
And El-Nakla and his co-accused Stephen Stewart, 52, Jennifer Souter, 39, and Victoria McGowan, 43, are all alleged to have put Mr Munro “in a state of alarm and apprehension of physical harm” and “did extort a sum of money from him by threats”, on the flat, the court docket heard.
Stewart, Souter and McGowan moreover face a cost particularly in relation to Mr Munro’s demise.
Court docket papers allege they “did threaten and intimidate him, thereby placing him in an extreme state of fear and alarm for his safety, and cause said Ryan Munro to escape said flat from a window at height, causing him to fall from said window and strike the ground, whereby he was so severely injured that he died there and you did kill him”.
Mr Munro fell from the window in Dundee after allegedly being kidnapped by Stewart, Souter and McGowan; a cost they deny.
Stewart, McGowan and El-Nakla all deny dealing heroin from a flat in Dundee between 1 July 2023 and 11 January 2024.
Souter, McGowan and Stewart, of Dundee, deny dealing cocaine from the identical flat between 1 July 2023 and 11 January 2024.
McGowan, of Aberdeen, who was mentioned to be on bail on the time, can also be accused of dealing class C drug Bromazolam between 1 July 2023 and 11 January 2024 at each Dundee addresses.
She is additional accused of possession of hashish, and sophistication C medication Zopiclone and Pregabalin on 11 January 2024.
All 4 deny the accusations towards them. The trial, earlier than Choose Woman Drummond, continues.
