Thomas "TC" Campbell, 51, and Joe Steele, 42, were convicted and jailed for life in 1984 for the murder in a house fire of six members of a Glasgow family, including an 18-month-old baby. Homepage. And before too long, things began to turn nasty. The 66-year-old was one of two men wrongly convicted of Glasgow's Ice Cream Wars murders in 1984. The man wrongly convicted of the ice cream wars murders ended his 35-year feud with Thomas Campbell, his co-accused, weeks before he died.Joe Steele, 57, speaking publicly for the first time since Thomas TC Campbell and Joe Steele have always protested their innocence over the murders of six members of the Doyle family in Glasgow 20 years ago. A docudrama covering the case of TC Campbell and Joe Steele - the two men convicted of the murders of the Doyle family from Glasgow in 1984 in what became known as 'The Ice Cream Wars'. The case of two men appealing against their convictions for the "ice cream wars" murders has ended in Edinburgh. ... Mr Campbell and Joe Steele were convicted of … With David Jessel. The ice-cream wars As ice-cream vans became a profitable enterprise in the impoverished city, tensions began to rise between rival operators. For most of us, the sound of an ice cream truck brings back memories of lazy summer afternoons and children rushing to buy a chocolate cone. Thomas Campbell and Joe Steele fought for 20 years to prove their innocence after being convicted of starting a fire that killed six members of one family, including an 18-month-old baby, in 1984.