Robert Evans Jr pleaded guilty on Friday to manslaughter in the death of Sharif Rahman, closing the main criminal charge in a case that began with an unpaid restaurant bill in Owen Sound, Ontario. He is due to be sentenced next month.

The plea puts a fresh legal endpoint on a death that has followed the family of Rahman, 44, for more than a year. The father of one died in August 2023 after an argument over a $150 bill at a curry house in Owen Sound, about 118 miles, or 190km, from Toronto, and his death has now led to prison terms already served for Robert Busby Evans and Barry Evans, who also admitted their roles in the case.

Rahman was found in the street by a staff member after the alleged physical altercation outside the restaurant, then died a week later in hospital in London, Ontario. The three men are believed to be from Manchester and were extradited to Canada from Scotland last year, after the case had already crossed from a local dispute to an international criminal proceeding.

That path was not straightforward. Canadian media outlets reported at the time that the three men were in the country on holiday visas and left a short time after the altercation, yet more than a year later Evans Jr and his father were arrested by Police Scotland in Edinburgh, while Barry Evans was arrested in Dalkeith. All three later gave their consent to extradition at separate hearings last October before Sheriff Julius Komorowski at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Defence agent Sarah Loosemore told the court that Robert Busby Evans had decided it would be appropriate for the matter to be dealt with under the Canadian justice system. Evans Jr now faces sentencing next month, the last unresolved piece in a case that has already moved from a restaurant bill dispute to a cross-border conviction.