If i was to have had no dealing with the coppers in my young days i would not

have thought that the way they where treeted was true.Yet we are the bad guys come on how meny more tc and wee joes are still inside.This web page could help a lot of people that dont have o lot of help and on there toad so keep up the good work

                                TAMURMAN

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It has been one of Scotland's longest-running campaigns against a miscarriage of justice, and today the men jailed for Glasgow's notorious Ice Cream War murders are free, without a stain on their name. Appeal Court judges quashed the convictions of Thomas TC Campbell and Joe Steele, after hearing new evidence which cast doubt on the accuracy of police testimony in the case.

But the question remains - who did kill six members of the Doyle family in that fire attack 20 years ago?

They have claimed they were the victims of a miscarriage of justice for almost two decades -and today Joseph Steele and TC Campbell finally cleared their names and won their freedom.

Thomas TC Campbell said: "There's no jubilation, there's no happiness because I feel that there's only losers in this case. Everybody has lost. The Doyle family have lost their family, we've lost our lives in prison. And for 20 years justice has lost."

Campbell and Steele were jailed in 1984 - convicted of murdering six members of the Doyle family by setting fire to their flat during Glasgow's Ice Cream Wars - a struggle for control of ice cream vans which were supposedly selling drugs.

Behind bars, Campbell staged hunger strikes - Steele escaped from prison three times, once famously glueing himself to the gates of Buckingham Palace. Both were released for previous appeals - only to be sent back to jail.

In the end, after 20 years, it took the judges about five minutes to announce the convictions had been overturned. Both men kept their emotions in check. Steele started a round of applause which rippled round the public benches. Outside in the corridors, members of his family hugged and cried.

Jim Steele, Joe Steele's brother, said: "I just hope that some time in the future, no 20 years down the line like what's happened to my brother, but in the very near future, Mrs Doyle and the remnants of her family can pick up the pieces and hopefully the real killers will be caught."

Campbell and Steele have always claimed they were framed back in 1984. Police had alleged the pair made self-incriminating statements - but at the appeal, memory expert Professor Brian Clifford said the police evidence was unreliable. The appeal judges agreed.

Campbell's solicitor Aamer Anwar said: "At the heart of this case was allegations of police corruption, officers who conspired for 20 years to keep these men behind bars. This injustice was allowed to continue because if the claims of Campbell and Steele were true, other innocent men have been framed and had their lives destroyed."

Tommy Sheridan MSP from the Scottish Socialist Party said: "My worry is that the detectives were involved in this wrongful conviction are going to get off Scot free. Two of them have died, two of them have retired, others still in the force. Strathclyde Police if it wants to raise its reputation again is going to have to support an independent investigative body."

Campbell is demanding an inquiry into Strathclyde Police. The Crown Office will consider launching a criminal investigation - the force has declined to comment. Campbell and Steele meanwhile will receive compensation of at least half a million pounds, possibly far more. The mass murder of the Doyle family remains unsolved. Strathclyde Police - a force now blamed for an infamous miscarriage of justice - says it has no new suspects.