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It was extremely well publicised at the time too: Golding even gave the PA a quote in advance about why he was going, every mainstream media outlet mentioned him in their reports and Twitter throbbed with speculation about whether he was breaching his bail conditions.

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Maybe in some circles it was well publicised but in many articles around the time it's nothing more than a single sentence mention, e.g., [0] which is near the bottom, [1] or [2] which are closer to the top but still not really the point of the articles. The Telegraph link from DanBC's post mentions them a few more times for comparison.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53033550

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53031072

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/14/met-police-con...

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