'Dundee’s nationalist politics are murky, resembling “an episode of Game of Thrones”, according to David Clegg, the editor of Dundee’s Courier newspaper, writing in 2019, and El-Nakia was fully immersed in these turbulent currents.
The city’s SNP elite run the council and hold every Holyrood and Westminster seat, but over the past ten years the party has suffered a series of scandals — not least the very public divorce of Robison and Stewart Hosie, MP for Dundee East and the party’s former deputy leader at Westminster.
The two had been regarded as the “king and queen of Dundee”, said Clegg, but their marriage collapsed in 2016 and it soon emerged that Hosie and Angus MacNeil, another SNP MP, had both been having affairs with Serena Cowdy, a political journalist (Hosie and Cowdy have since married).
El-Nakla was by then embroiled in troubles of her own, which emerged in 2018 during the sensational trial of her former lover, Craig Melville, a former SNP councillor who formerly worked for Hosie.
Matters had come to a head in 2015, on the night of the Bataclan atrocity in Paris, when 130 people died in an attack by Islamic fundamentalists. At the time, though married to Fariad Umar, an IT specialist, El-Nakia told the court that she had been embroiled in an “on-off” affair with Melville, who was himself engaged to be married.
After news of the Paris killings broke, she received a drunken phone call from Melville, who followed up with a series of text messages.
One message read: “It’s not personal I just fing hate your religion and I’ll do all [to] defeat your filth.’ Another said: “Horrible murdering Islamic c*.’
El-Nakla described in court how she had previously changed Melville’s name on her phone to read “Karen” — the name of another friend — to avoid suspicion as they were calling and texting each other “constantly throughout the day”.
Umar told the court that he became suspicious about the messages. “The language wasn’t what Karen would use so I checked the number with one I had on my phone and they were different,” he said. “When I called the Karen on my wife’s phone, a man answered. I hung up.”
He confronted El-Nakla, who initially denied an affair, prompting Umar, an IT specialist, to use data recovery software to retrieve the text messages. Melville was found guilty of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner, aggravated by racial prejudice.'
Bloody hell. Is this why they produce such piss poor legislation; they're all too busy shagging each other's spouses?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/who-is-nadia-el-nakla-the-scottish-first-ministers-activist-wife-rtcd33t2d