Former AFL player Liam Jurrah says he wants to get “back on track” and is focused on footy after being released from prison at the end of July.
Jurrah, who was released on July 27, said he had been in contact with Melbourne’s player welfare manager Craig Lees, despite leaving the club after the 2012 season.
“I have been in touch with Craig Lees … ever since I left the Melbourne Footy Club,” Jurrah told NewsCorp Australia.
Speaking for the first time since his release, Jurrah said he was focused on getting back into his footy.
“It has just been really frustrating. I know what I did was wrong and I am trying to get back on track,” he told the NT News.
He said it boosted his confidence that Demons players “still want to be in contact with me”.
Jurrah was sentenced to six months jail over an assault on a woman outside a 24-hour store in Alice Springs, backdated to April 27 and suspended after three months.
In March, he was acquitted in an Alice Springs Court of attacking his cousin with a machete in a brawl last year.