The Ice Cream Wars

In the early 1980s, Glasgow gangsters found themselves fighting over an unlikely commodity: ice cream trucks. As this fascinating true crime documentary shows, competition was fierce and escalated into violence. In 1984, the family of a driver was targeted and killed in an arson attack. It was, in its time, the greatest mass murder in Scottish history. But who was responsible?

A criminal turf war over ice cream trucks in 1980s Glasgow culminated in the murder of an entire family. As this gripping true crime documentary continues, police efforts to find those responsible led to one of the biggest trials in Scottish history. But were the men convicted responsible? The next decade would see one of the most dramatic campaigns for justice in history.