Violent Glasgow 'Ice Cream Wars' set to feature in new BBC documentary
dailyrecord.co.ukBBC Scotland is set to showcase an interesting two-part series which will reveal, for the first time, the untold story of a vicious gang war that tore through Glasgow housing estates in the early 1980s.
The Ice Cream Wars, which will be two 60-minute episodes, will use archive, first-hand testimony and high-end dramatic reconstruction to tell of the infamous gangland battle over the most unlikely of things - ice cream van routes.
This battle would result in the murder of six members of the same, completely innocent, family, including an 18-month old baby, leading to an infamous miscarriage of justice and a crime that remains unsolved to this day.
David Harron, Commissioning Editor, BBC Scotland said: “The Ice Cream Wars is a powerful 2-part series which, as well as telling the story of a brutal feud, also explores the nature of life in some of Scotland’s most deprived communities during that period.
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