I dropped my daughter off at the funfair on Saturday at midday, her usual start time. She used the side gate as usual, walking carefully on her crutches, and made her way between the stands, games and rides.

The place was mostly deserted, so before leaving I watched my daughter head towards a temporary works office in the distance where there were some construction workers in their yellow vests milling about.

When I picked her up at five o’clock later that day, she was rather chipper.

“You’ll want to watch the news tonight, Dad!” was all she would say as we walked home.

It was a nearly quarter to six by the time we got home, so we grabbed some snacks and sat down to watch the BBC Weekend News. The newsreader led with a breaking news update on the massacre story:

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The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that three rebels responsible for the Lenhurst Common Funfair massacre have been captured by military police.

Jonathan Fairchild, Randy Smith and Tony Ayles were apprehended earlier today following a major intelligence-led operation. They are believed to be the last remaining perpetrators of the attack two weeks ago, which left 46 people dead and 205 injured.

Our home affairs correspondent reports from outside the Ministry of Justice in London:

Two weeks after the devastating attack that shattered the peace at Lenhurst Common, the military police operation has drawn to a definitive close.

In a series of coordinated raids, authorities not only detained the three attackers, but also recaptured six rebels who had been rescued from custody. They have been confirmed as Martin Spencer, Wendy Wise, Eustace Greaves and sisters Ada, Beatrice, and Celia Johnson.

They now join in custody Reece Fairchild, who was injured during the massacre and later detained in hospital, and Agnes Morton, Ian Hunkins, and Lena Kovács, who were arrested just forty-eight hours after the massacre.

The Ministry of Justice has issued a statement to reassure the public.

In it they say that all captured individuals are currently being held in high-security solitary confinement and that justice will be swift.

Construction has begun on an arena at the site of the Lenhurst Common Funfair. The rebels are scheduled to face a justice tournament at the newly built arena in exactly two weeks’ time.

The government has announced that members of the public will be permitted to attend the proceedings. Tickets for the tournament went on sale this evening via the official Ministry of Justice website.

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We all turned to look at my daughter, who was very excited.

“I’ve been brainstorming some ideas today with the team responsible for building the arena,” she said, “though they said I won’t be able to take part in the tournament due to my injuries.”

Ten minutes later, I’d booked us four front-row tickets from the Ministry of Justice website.