A Highland League football legend who died after a tragic accident left a fortune of more than £4million in his will.
Kenny Roger, who ran a building business, died after a fall while carrying out maintenance work on the roof of a shed at his yard.
The 69-year-old was a legendary player for Highland league side Fraserburgh FC and turned out for the club in three different decades.
He slipped and fell from a building in the Aberdeenshire town last July and died at the scene despite the best efforts of members of the public and ambulance staff.
It has now emerged that he had a fortune valued at £4,330,638 at the time of his death.
Mr Roger left instructions that his wealth should be left to his wife of 45 years, Alison, and their two children.
He had built up a successful construction business in Fraserburgh which built numerous houses locally and he continued to work past retirement age.
Football-mad Mr Roger had travelled across the globe to support the Scotland team and was at Hampden the day before his death to watch Gordon Strachan’s side lose 3-2 to world champions Germany in a Euro 2016 qualifier.
Following his death, Fraserburgh chairman Finlay Noble paid tribute to him.
He said: “This has come as a shock. Kenny was a very fit guy.
“We’re a close-knit club and everyone at the club will be thinking about Kenny and his family at this time.
“Kenny played in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He was a centre-half and must have played well over 400 games, if not 500, for the club.
“He’d retired from his business but over the past few weeks he’d been helping us out at the club doing some building work.
“He was very much still part of the club.”
His son Craig said the death of his dad had been like “someone turning off a light”.
He added: “I’ve been struggling to find the words, he was just the best thing in my life and I can’t say anything else.
“He was kind, caring, and hardworking – he worked up until yesterday trying to help the family out.”
Mr Roger was found injured after his wife Alison and his son went to the yard in Fraserburgh’s Albert Street to check on him when he failed to call in at the family home.
Mr Roger – who was nicknamed Dodger – was a former director and committee member at the club and he still attended most matches at Bellslea Park.
In 1970, he played in the Fraserburgh side who faced European Cup finalists Celtic in a fundraising match following that year’s Fraserburgh lifeboat disaster, in which five crewmen died.
A minute’s silence in memory of him was held at the club’s first home match following his death.