In which British city did gangs in the 1980s fight a turf war dubbed the “Ice Cream Wars”?
Glasgow Ice Cream Wars Glasgow Ice Cream Wars The Ice Cream Wars was a turf war in the East End of Glasgow, in Scotland, in the 1980s between rival criminal organisations selling drugs and stolen goods from ice cream vans. Van operators were involved in frequent violence and intimidation tactics. A driver and his family were killed in an arson attack that resulted in a 20-year court battle. The conflicts generated widespread public outrage, and earned the Strathclyde Police the nickname of "serious chimes squad" (a pun on Serious Crime Squad) for its perceived failure to address them. In the 1980s in Glasgow, Scotland,
Glasgow Ice Cream Wars several ice-cream vendors also sold drugs and stolen goods along their routes, using the ice cream sales as fronts. A turf war erupted between these vendors, and much of the violence was either intimidation or competition. During the conflict, rival vendors raided each others' vans and fired shotguns into the windscreens of the vehicles. The culmination of the violence came on 16 April 1984 with the murder by arson of six members of the Doyle family, in the Ruchazie housing estate. Eighteen-year-old Andrew Doyle, nicknamed "Fat Boy", a driver for the Marchetti firm, had resisted being intimidated into distributing drugs