Animal rights backlash after former Scotland rugby star said rabbits killed on team-building exercise

"He's swinging this rabbit round with one hand, then next thing he slams it on the floor."

Former Scotland international Jim Hamilton has backtracked on comments he made suggesting that players were made to execute rabbits by head coach Vern Cotter, writes Douglas Imrie.

The now retired lock said the incident took place while on a team-building exercise with the French marines in the Pyrenees in the build up to last year’s Rugby World Cup - as the coach sought to “toughen them up.”