Brother-in-law of Scotland's former leader, Humza Yousaf, facing extortion and drug charges

The brother-in-law of Scotland's erstwhile archetypal curate Humza Yousaf has gone connected proceedings accused of extortion and dealing people A drugs.

The lawsuit follows the decease of a antheral who fell from a model in Dundee aft allegedly being threatened.

Ramsay El-Nakla, 37, is connected proceedings astatine the High Court successful Edinburgh and is the member of Mr Yousaf's wife, Dundee councillor Nadia El-Nakla.

El-Nakla does not look a complaint successful narration to the decease of Ryan Munro who fell from a level connected Dundee's Morgan Street connected 10 January 2024.

But helium is is accused of dealing cocaine from the level betwixt 9 and 11 January 2024, arsenic good arsenic astatine different location successful the city, which helium denies.

And El-Nakla and his co-accused Stephen Stewart, 52, Jennifer Souter, 39, and Victoria McGowan, 43, are each alleged to person enactment Mr Munro "in a authorities of alarm and apprehension of carnal harm" and "did extort a sum of wealth from him by threats", astatine the flat, the tribunal heard.

Stewart, Souter and McGowan additionally look a complaint specifically successful narration to Mr Munro's death.

Court papers allege they "did endanger and intimidate him, thereby placing him successful an utmost authorities of fearfulness and alarm for his safety, and origin said Ryan Munro to flight said level from a model astatine height, causing him to autumn from said model and onslaught the ground, whereby helium was truthful severely injured that helium died determination and you did termination him".

Mr Munro fell from the model successful Dundee aft allegedly being abducted by Stewart, Souter and McGowan; a complaint they deny.

Stewart, McGowan and El-Nakla each contradict dealing heroin from a level successful Dundee betwixt 1 July 2023 and 11 January 2024.

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Souter, McGowan and Stewart, of Dundee, contradict dealing cocaine from the aforesaid level betwixt 1 July 2023 and 11 January 2024.

McGowan, of Aberdeen, who was said to beryllium connected bail astatine the time, is besides accused of dealing people C cause Bromazolam betwixt 1 July 2023 and 11 January 2024 astatine some Dundee addresses.

She is further accused of possession of cannabis, and people C drugs Zopiclone and Pregabalin connected 11 January 2024.

All 4 contradict the accusations against them. The trial, earlier Judge Lady Drummond, continues.