Canadian restaurant dispute leads to manslaughter plea after extradition from Scotland
A $150 restaurant bill ended in a manslaughter plea after a father-of-one died from a blow outside The Curry House in Owen Sound.
A dispute over a $150 bill outside The Curry House in Owen Sound ended with the death of 44-year-old Sharif Rahman, a father-of-one, and now with a manslaughter plea after an extradition from Scotland.
Robert Evans Jr, 25, admitted manslaughter in an Ontario Court of Justice appearance in Owen Sound on Friday. His father, Robert Busby Evans, 49, and uncle, Barry Evans, 56, pleaded guilty to being accessories after the fact. The older two men have already been sentenced to time served.
The case began on August 17, 2023, outside the restaurant in Owen Sound, about 190 kilometres northwest of Toronto. Agreed facts presented in court say the three men had come to Canada on U.K. passports in 2023 and were later involved in a confrontation over an unpaid bill reportedly worth $150, or about £79. During the altercation, Robert Evans Jr punched Rahman in the face, Rahman fell to the sidewalk and struck his head, and he died in hospital in London, Ontario, a week later.
Rahman’s death reverberated far beyond the restaurant door. He was a local business owner in a city where many people knew him, and the violence transformed an ordinary service dispute into a case that touched on loss, fear and the fragility of public safety in a small community. For residents of Owen Sound, the outcome has underscored how quickly a brief confrontation can turn deadly, and how one death can shake confidence in the everyday spaces people rely on.
The three men left Canada after the killing, were arrested in Scotland in late 2024 and extradited back to Ontario in December 2025. Ontario Provincial Police and Owen Sound Police were involved in the investigation, and local police said the older two men were taken into the custody of the Canadian Border Agency for repatriation before the court proceedings moved forward.
The guilty pleas close one chapter of a case that has drawn attention across Canada because it combined a fatal restaurant dispute, an international search and a cross-border extradition. Evans Jr is scheduled to be sentenced next month, while the record of the case now stands as a stark reminder that accountability can follow suspects across oceans, but not in time to spare a family its loss.
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