TROUBLED footballer Liam Jurrah was simply buying a snack from a 24-hour convenience store in the early hours of the morning when he was confronted by a rival group, his grandmother says. One week after the ex-AFL footballer was acquitted of assaulting his cousin with a machete and just hours after he failed to appear in an Adelaide court on another aggravated assault charge, Cecily Granites battled to explain why the former Melbourne star was again in custody. "He went over to the 24-hour shop on Gap Road and bought something to eat, like a sandwich," his grandmother explained. There was a group of (people that) saw Liam going in and when he came out there was a couple of people standing there and they started talking to him in a really angry way. Ms Granites said she received a phone call about 4am saying Jurrah, 24, was in trouble and that he was in police custody. Superintendent Brent Warren said police attended the incident after 3am and identified three women who had been assaulted. "Police subsequently arrested two men, aged 24 and 32, in relation to the alleged incident," he said. Both men are currently in police custody. Also today, Magistrate David McLeod said a warrant for Jurrah's arrest would lie on the file after he failed to appear in Elizabeth Magistrates Court to answer a charge of aggravated assault. Jurrah's lawyer told the court her client had stayed in Alice Springs for his grandfather's funeral, but Mr McLeod said he wanted corroboration the funeral was taking place. The hearing proceeded without Jurrah, but prosecutors said the charge against him was likely to be withdrawn because the alleged victim had signed a form saying she did not wish to proceed. Defence lawyer Joanna Caracoussis told the court Jurrah's grandfather died late last year and the funeral was scheduled for last week but had been postponed. The funeral had been planned for last Thursday - the day a jury returned its not guilty verdict in Jurrah's case of alleged assault against cousin Basil Jurrah. The matter was adjourned to May. Ms Granites says after a funeral in Central Australia next week she planned to return to Adelaide with Jurrah. Last Thursday an Alice Springs jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty to a charge of causing serious harm to Basil Jurrah, 37, at an Alice Springs camp last March.