After denying extortion and drug accusations in a case involving a man who died after falling from a window, the brother-in-law of former first minister Humza Yousaf will go on trial.

Ramsay El-Nakla, 37, has been charged with threatening and extoarting a certain amount of money from the deceased guy and being involved in the distribution of cocaine and heroin.

On January 10, 2024, an incident at a block of apartments in Morgan Street, Dundee, gravely injured 36-year-old Ryan Munro, who subsequently passed away in the hospital.

Stephen Stewart, 51; Jennifer Souter, 39; and Victoria McGowan, 42; have all denied abducting Mr Munro, threatening him and placing him in an extreme state of fear and alarm, causing him to leap out of a window.

A preliminary hearing at the High Court in Glasgow on Monday also heard all three have further denied being concerned in the supply of cocaine at two different addresses in Dundee between 1 July 2023 and 11 January 2024.

Stewart, McGowan and El-Nakla also pleaded not guilty to being concerned in the supply of heroin during the same period.

El-Nakla, who is not accused of being involved in the alleged killing, further denied being concerned in the supply of cocaine between 9 and 11 January 2024.

El-Nakla - the brother of Mr Yousaf's wife, Dundee councillor Nadia El-Nakla - is scheduled to go on trial at the High Court in Edinburgh on 2 December.