Man found guilty of killing one of Britain’s rarest butterflies

Magistrates told that Phillip Cullen was spotted chasing large blues with a net at Gloucestershire reserve

A man has been found guilty of unlawfully collecting and killing specimens of one of Britain's rarest butterflies, the large blue.

Phillip Cullen, 57, was spotted armed with a child's shrimping net chasing the insects at a nature reserve in Gloucestershire and was seen the next day at another prime location for the butterfly in Somerset.