The trial of a former senior Dundee SNP councillor accused of sending racist text messages continued on Thursday morning.
Craig Melville, 37, is accused of acting in a threatening and abusive manner towards Nadia El-Nakla, a former SNP colleague.
It is alleged Melville, who had been in an extra-marital relationship with Ms El-Nakla, sent messages saying he wanted to “shoot” Muslims following the Paris terrorist attacks at the Bataclan theatre in 2015.
Melville is further accused of referring to Muslims as “filth” and that a particular Islamic youth worker in the city should be “burried alive”.
Ms El-Nakla finished giving evidence at Dundee Sheriff Court on Thursday morning, before Sheriff Scott Pattison.
She was asked by Melville’s defence solicitor Douglas McConnell whether there was a possibility the messages read out to the court had been made up to “keep the heat” away from herself.
Ms El-Nakla responded: “(This experience) has been a nightmare. I did not write these messages. Craig Melville did. I was not an elected member. I had an affair, which I didn’t realise was a crime.”
She further noted, during cross examination by Mr McConnell, she and her estranged husband had spoken to the press after initially raising the allegedly racist text messages with SNP party chiefs.
Melville, of Marlee Road, denies sending threatening, derogatory and abusive remarks regarding Muslims between November 13 – 15 2015 to Nadia El-Nakla.
The trial continues.
