Updated February 16, 2018 12:46:16

Photo: The community-led organisation drove three billboards around London. (AP: Jeff Moore/Justice4Grenfell)

Activists for victims of a deadly London high-rise fire have taken inspiration from an Academy Award-nominated film to press for more action by police.

Three mobile billboards were driven through the British capital on Thursday on behalf of the Justice 4 Grenfell campaign.

The group was set up after fire ravaged the Grenfell Tower apartment block in June 2017, killing 71 people.

The signs read: "71 dead. And still no arrests? How Come?"

Photo: The campaign was inspired by the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. (AP: Jeff Moore/Justice4Grenfell )

In the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, a mother played by Frances McDormand uses large signs to berate police for failing to catch her daughter's killer.

Justice 4 Grenfell said it hoped the billboards would "keep this tragedy in the national conscience".

Police said they were considering possible manslaughter charges over the blaze, but no-one has yet been charged.

AP

Topics: disasters-and-accidents, death, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, crime, united-kingdom

First posted February 16, 2018 09:31:47