A bodybuilder who became the first person in the UK prosecuted under 'obscure' wildlife laws for stealing the UK's rarest butterflies has avoided jail.Former weightlifter Phillip Cullen, 57, captured and killed endangered Large Blue maculinea arion butterflies, a European protected species. He caught one at Daneway Banks nature reserve in Gloucestershire and another at Collard Hill, near Street in Somerset, the next day. Witnesses described seeing Cullen, a 'self-taught' collector, and a friend...
