Former AFL footballer Liam Jurrah had a crowbar at a town camp where his cousin was allegedly assaulted last year, an Alice Springs court has heard.
Former AFL player Liam Jurrah had a crowbar at a town camp on the edge of Alice Springs where he allegedly assaulted his cousin, a court has heard.
Several people at the Little Sisters Camp when the alleged incident occurred in March last year gave evidence on the second day of the Jurrah trial in the Alice Springs Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Lemiah Woods told the court he saw Jurrah and a group of other people running towards the No.1 house at Little Sisters.
Jurrah was carrying a crowbar and other people had weapons that included a big stick and a nulla nulla - a type of traditional Aboriginal club, he said.
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Jurrah's aunt, Freda Nabaltjari Jurrah, testified that she was sitting around a campfire when she heard a man - Christopher Walker - singing out to her group.
"He said 'who wants to fight with me?'" Ms Jurrah said.
"I told him nobody wants to fight him."
She told the court Walker said he was going to come back with his family, and later a group that included Jurrah ran towards the No.1 house, but it was too dark to see whether they were carrying weapons.
"He (Jurrah) had something but I couldn't see what he had," she said, showing the court that whatever the ex-footballer was carrying was about 30 to 45cm long.
Later she saw Basil Jurrah lying injured on the ground, and when police and an ambulance came, people scattered, she said.
Under cross-examination from Jon Tippett, QC, Ms Jurrah said there had been problems between two familial groups, the Watsons and the Walker-Granites, and they were enemies.
Mr Woods also said that during the afternoon before the conflict started he had been drinking and was "half shot" when events took place.
He said that on the night the alleged assault happened Jurrah and another man - Denis Nelson - had smashed up his father's car using an axe, including damage to the front and rear windows and a door.
Woods said he had a fight with Mr Nelson and the police came and arrested Mr Nelson.
Later a group that included Liam Jurrah returned and the ex-footballer and others ran towards him, some throwing rocks, Mr Woods said.
An armed Basil Jurrah was among a group of people who then turned up at Little Sisters.
"I saw Basil with a machete," Mr Woods said under cross-examination.
Mr Woods said that when the violence broke out he ran off into a grassy area but returned to see Basil Jurrah lying on his back and bleeding from head injuries.
