Fella who spent £7,000 at native Costa ‘banned’ from 2,700 shops ‘due to what ex stated’
David Rimmer, 60, spent £7,000 at his local Costa Coffee over seven years but was banned after his ex-partner Kimberley Goodings falsely told staff
Patrick Edrich
10:06, 13 Jun 2026Updated 10:06, 13 Jun 2026
David Rimmer spent a fortune at Costa(Image: Andrew Teebay)
A bloke who splashed out £7,000 in his local Costa Coffee was barred from the shop after his “pathological liar” ex-partner falsely informed staff he was a sex offender. David Rimmer, 60, was subjected to a campaign of harassment by Kimberley Goodings which included trailing him around Liverpool Shopping Park on Edge Lane shouting insults and making unproven, damaging allegations.
This escalated when Goodings deceitfully told staff at the Costa branch, located inside Next on the retail park, that Mr Rimmer was a convicted sex offender. A distraught Mr Rimmer rang the police as a result of the harassment, but Costa’s reaction resulted in him being banned from the premises as well as all 2,700 coffee shops across the UK.
Goodings, 56, stood before Liverpool Crown Court in April this year and received a sentence of 28 months in prison for stalking, making threats with a bladed article in a private place and assault by beating. The sentencing judge described the harassment of Mr Rimmer as “highly distressing” and led to the ban from “the coffee outlet which he had a habit of frequenting”.
Following Goodings’ sentencing, Mr Rimmer reached out to Costa Coffee with evidence of her court appearance in an attempt to overturn the ban imposed solely because of her lies. And in an email response from a customer services team manager seen by the ECHO, Mr Rimmer was told “given the new evidence” the coffee chain said it would be “happy to welcome you back” to its UK branches.
But the email requested Mr Rimmer to continue to “refrain from visiting” his local branch. It stated the exclusion notice at the Liverpool Shopping Park branch remained in force due to a “perceived threat to [the staff’s] welfare and safety” as a result of Goodings’ outburst, adding “this decision was taken on that basis rather than a determination of the allegations themselves”, reports the Liverpool Echo.
Mr Rimmer, who resides just metres from the Edge Lane retail park, told the ECHO he had spent more than £7,000 at the coffee shop over the past seven years since his relocation to Liverpool from Denmark. He said he visited the Costa five or six days-a-week for his usual order of a latte, but this latest rejection made him feel like he was still being regarded as a criminal despite the court’s verdict.
He said: “I’m still being treated as I have done something wrong. All they would have had to do would be a minor investigation into what Goodings put me through. They would have seen she was in court and the last time I was in trouble was in 1993 and that was for a road traffic violation.
“I do not understand Costa’s stance. I do not want to go to another Costa, this one is 300m from my home. I had to deal with Goodings and now I have to deal with this. I feel like the door has been slammed in my face. It all feels like a domino effect where everything is falling in the wrong direction for me.”
The ECHO has contacted Costa Coffee repeatedly in recent days to enquire about the continuing ban. At the time of writing we have not received any response.
Goodings and Mr Rimmer had been in a relationship for around 12 months when things deteriorated last summer. The pair remained living together but on the evening of August 31 Goodings became aggressive and accused Mr Rimmer of having an affair.
Liverpool Crown Court heard Goodings went on to “shout and scream, including making a threat to slit his throat” before “lunging towards him” with a kitchen knife. She held the blade around 1cm from his face before striking him to the head and body.
Mr Rimmer contacted the police and Goodings was arrested the following day and then bailed with conditions to not contact him.
However, she proceeded to bombard him with a string of emails “almost immediately” before the incident on Liverpool Shopping Park. Goodings was said to have told Mr Rimmer “how can a big, bad biker be afraid of a little woman?”, before making the false accusations.
She went on to message him on Instagram and accused him of engaging in bestiality in a series of grim social media posts.
Mr Rimmer told the court that he had been “traumatised” by the relationship and claimed Goodings had “made his life a living hell”. And speaking to the ECHO he added he continued to endure both physical and mental sufferings as a result of the relationship, court proceedings and Costa decision.
He stated: “The impact is I have gone from an outgoing fella – the kind of guy who would throw everything into a rucksack and take off – to someone so far away from that. I was a biggish bloke, but I lost four stone and none of my clothes fitted me.
“It has been a very rough year where not much has gone to plan. The sentence she got in court is not a sentence that she will serve. That is deeply disturbing. I thought I had a bit of breathing space to get on with my life but I was horrified to be told I did not have anything like as long as I thought.”
Under UK law, a defendant typically serves half of their prison sentence before they are reintegrated back into society on licence. However, due to the strain on the prison system, the government introduced an early release scheme in England and Wales which sees most inmates only serving 40% of their standard sentence behind bars.
This implies Goodings could be released by this time next year.
Mr Rimmer revealed he had borderline personality disorder but managed it with his medication. But he added the ongoing ordeal of being treated as a criminal and having to endure what he termed Goodings’ “pathological lies” throughout the investigation and court appearance have taken a toll.
When questioned about Costa’s decision, he further stated: “Costa has stopped talking to me. They will say ‘why would we’, but their response was absolutely appalling. I was an innocent person in this. I was verbally abused and she told them I was a convicted sex offender. This ordeal has just been too much.”
