Devon & Cornwall Police, along with the RSPB, have just announced that two peregrines that were found dead on 21 July this year had been poisoned by the banned pesticide Carbofuran. The RSPB is offering a reward of £1000 for information leading to a conviction.
The two birds, a male and female, were discovered by a member of the public, having been seen alive a few hours earlier hunting along their cliffside nest in St. Just. Cornwall Police Wildlife Crime Officer, P.C. Jack Tarr said: “That these magnificent birds should be killed in this way is truly shocking. This was a pair I’d regularly enjoyed watching hunting off the coast at St. Just and I know they were popular with many other people who walked the cliffs there. We need to find out who did this and bring them to justice“.
Full story on RSPB website here
Article on BBC News here
Article in This is Devon here
Raptor Persecution UK 
Again there is serious delay between the incident being reported and the information being made public.
I think that we need to know how all the time is lost.
Do the birds lie in a pathology lab freezer for ages prior to examination? There certainly is cause for much more transparency in these matters.