by Vicky » Thu Dec 14, 2017 6:35 am
Guest wrote:Vicks wrote:Guest wrote:Vicks wrote:There was a horrific arson attack in Scotland in 1984 that was evil beyond belief.
Six members of the one family died and three others were lucky to survive.
Lilian Doyle lost her husband, her daughter, three of her sons and her baby grandson in the inferno.
The Hull City goalkeeper David Marshall is the son of Mrs Doyle's surviving daughter.
was the killer ever caught?
Two men Thomas TC Campbell and Joe Steele were convicted and spent nearly twenty years in prison before having their convictions quashed.
Gary Moore made a deathbed confession, but a lot of people didn't believe it.
The crime was refereed to as "The Ice Cream War Murders"
One of the victims drove an Ice Cream van and he had suffered intimidation prior to the attack to give up his round.
He refused and this seems to have been the motive.
The Doyle's were a decent family and had no criminal connections.
One of the sons survived by jumping out the window (The Doyle's lived in a top floor flat) he broke both his legs)
He was holding the family dog at the time and he was unhurt.
20 years doesn't seem a lot really, does it?
i was thinking about the oldest boy who managed to escape in this tragedy as well, he is going to spend the rest of his life blaming himself for surviving when his brother & sisters died.
TC Campbell got a longer sentence than Joe Steele, because TC was a well known hardman and the police thought it was his idea.
It's terrible the crime has never been solved and by terrible badluck the Doyle's had three more family members staying with them, than usual.
Their daughter Christine was staying over with her eighteen month old baby, because Mark wanted to stay with his Gran and Granda for the night.
James Jr was staying because his wife had given birth to their first child that day.
So there was Mr and Mrs Doyle, their five sons and their daughter and the baby.
Only Mrs Doyle and two of her sons survived.
David Marshall's mum wasn't in the house, she was married and living elsewhere.
[quote="Guest"][quote="Vicks"][quote="Guest"][quote="Vicks"]There was a horrific arson attack in Scotland in 1984 that was evil beyond belief.
Six members of the one family died and three others were lucky to survive.
Lilian Doyle lost her husband, her daughter, three of her sons and her baby grandson in the inferno.
The Hull City goalkeeper David Marshall is the son of Mrs Doyle's surviving daughter.[/quote]
was the killer ever caught?[/quote]
Two men Thomas TC Campbell and Joe Steele were convicted and spent nearly twenty years in prison before having their convictions quashed.
Gary Moore made a deathbed confession, but a lot of people didn't believe it.
The crime was refereed to as "The Ice Cream War Murders"
One of the victims drove an Ice Cream van and he had suffered intimidation prior to the attack to give up his round.
He refused and this seems to have been the motive.
The Doyle's were a decent family and had no criminal connections.
One of the sons survived by jumping out the window (The Doyle's lived in a top floor flat) he broke both his legs)
He was holding the family dog at the time and he was unhurt.[/quote]
20 years doesn't seem a lot really, does it?
i was thinking about the oldest boy who managed to escape in this tragedy as well, he is going to spend the rest of his life blaming himself for surviving when his brother & sisters died.[/quote]
TC Campbell got a longer sentence than Joe Steele, because TC was a well known hardman and the police thought it was his idea.
It's terrible the crime has never been solved and by terrible badluck the Doyle's had three more family members staying with them, than usual.
Their daughter Christine was staying over with her eighteen month old baby, because Mark wanted to stay with his Gran and Granda for the night.
James Jr was staying because his wife had given birth to their first child that day.
So there was Mr and Mrs Doyle, their five sons and their daughter and the baby.
Only Mrs Doyle and two of her sons survived.
David Marshall's mum wasn't in the house, she was married and living elsewhere.
