A for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go foot­baller is be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed by an an­i­mal wel­fare char­i­ty in Scot­land over claims he killed and ate an igua­na.

Ac­cord­ing to an ar­ti­cle in the Dai­ly Mail, ex-Hamil­ton Aca­d­e­m­i­cal and Trinidad & To­ba­go strik­er Richard Roy ap­peared in a pho­to­graph hold­ing a dead lizard by the tail above a kitchen sink.

The pho­to was post­ed on his wife Cheryl's Face­book page and is be­lieved to have been tak­en at a house in Dundee.

The post sparked a fu­ri­ous back­lash af­ter she said that her hus­band would be eat­ing it lat­er.

Cheryl hit back: 'Peo­ple need to mind their own damn busi­ness. Far too many peo­ple hav­ing a lot to say about oth­er peo­ple's lives.

'If you don't like how I live my life, re­move your­self, please.'

One user told the Dai­ly Record that Cheryl had re­moved all of the crit­i­cal com­ments along­side her post. Roy, 31, signed for Hamil­ton on a four-month con­tract in Au­gust 2016.

The Dai­ly Mail re­ports that the post sparked a fu­ri­ous back­lash af­ter she said that her hus­band would be eat­ing it lat­er.

The Scot­tish SP­CA has con­firmed they have been made aware of the pho­to­graph and is now in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

Roy has got six caps for Trinidad & To­ba­go.

Here in Trinidad and To­ba­go, the igua­na is a game an­i­mal and a li­cence is need­ed to hunt it.