More FM host Jay-Jay Feeney had been "very drunk" and verbally abusive to two taxi drivers the night she was allegedly groped, a court has heard. 

Baljeet Singh, 29, has pleaded not guilty to one charge of indecent assault on Feeney and is on trial before a jury in the Auckland District Court.

Feeney earlier said she feared she'd be raped when she took Singh's taxi home from a night out with a friend on October 1, 2017.

Police officer Tavae Tavae arrested Singh in his home and questioned him for two hours on November 30, 2017, about two months after the alleged assault.

In the video interview, which was played in court on Thursday, Singh's answers were relayed via a translator who spoke Punjabi.

Singh said that night, there was nothing outside of the normal routine of working Ponsonby Rd on a Saturday night.

There were a lot of drunk people after 1am, he said.

Singh recognised a photo of Feeney when asked, and said she was "very drunk" that night.

More FM host Jay-Jay Feeney told the court the night she was allegedly assaulted in a taxi left her traumatised.

"She was rejected from a few taxi because of her verbal abuse to taxi drivers," he said in the interview. 

Feeney waved down Singh's car and then, because Feeney was not able to say where she lived, he gave her his phone to put in her address into his maps app, he said.  

e did not remember how she paid and he could not remember what she was wearing, saying it was "too dark" to notice her clothes.

When she got in the car she was going "on and on" about the same thing - swearing and being rejected by taxi drivers, he said. 

Singh said he tried to calm her down by saying: "It's OK, I'll drop you home", the court heard.

He denied saying anything about her breasts or touching her breasts.

"I did not touch her at all."

In response to Tavae's question: "Did you ask to be her boyfriend?", he responded: "No, she's quite old – she might be 40 or 45".

When the pair arrived at the address, Feeney slipped and fell over when exiting the car, Singh said.

He got out to help her cross the road but she refused, he said.

Afterwards, he went back to Ponsonby Rd.

Singh said the CCTV in his car was on and working that night. He estimated the fare would have been about $10 to $20 dollars because he only drove a short distance. 

Earlier on Wednesday, senior constable Reginald Alofa told the court a specialist had tried to extract the footage from the security camera in the taxi.

The interior camera in the taxi was working during the alleged groping but too much time had lapsed to gather any data, the court heard.

Smart Cabs director Vahab Asgari said he assisted police in identifying Singh as the driver by tracing the Eftpos transaction. 

Taxi driver, Baljeet Singh is charged with indecent assault but denies all allegations.

Asgari said the security camera installed in Singh's car was working when he checked it.

The camera installed in the car worked continually once the car was turned on, he told the court.

At 150 hours of data, it deleted previous recordings in five-minute segments to allow it to continue.

This meant at any one time, the SD card would hold the last 150 hours of recorded data. 

"It was working when I checked it. I told police 'you need to hurry to get the images out'," Asgari told the court. 

Senior constable Reginald Alofa said he found the silver camera box under the driver's seat of Singh's Toyota Prius when he executed the search warrant on November 30, 2017. 

Alofa took the camera to a specialist in Mt Roskill to see if they could extract the footage from the vehicle. 

"But because of the time-lapse, from the hard drive to them, they were unable to extract any data," he told the court. 

Under cross-examination, Alofa told defence lawyer Marie Dyhrberg he took the camera to analysis perhaps "a day or two after" the initial search warrant.

The jury trial before Judge Claire Ryan is set down for four days.