Author faces Twitter backlash for eating the bunny that ate her parsley

Award-winning author Jeanette Winterson has come under fire for killing, skinning and eating a rabbit that got into her garden and ate her plants - and then posting the pics on Twitter.

An award-winning author has come under fire on Twitter after tweeting a picture of a half-skinned rabbit that she had caught and killed in her garden.

Jeanette Winterson, best known for her best-selling book, 'Oranges are not the Only Fruit', posted the below photo of the partially-skinned rabbit on her kitchen counter captioned: "Rabbit ate my parsley. I am eating the rabbit."