Kāpiti Coast District councillor David Scott has been found guilty of indecently assaulting a staff member after rubbing his genitals against her.

Scott, 71, was charged with indecent assault after it was alleged he thrust his genitals against a staff member at a morning tea last year. He had pleaded not guilty.

Scott had a number of supporters in the back of the court for the verdict. The woman who made the complaint against him was also present.

JOEL MAXWELL/STUFF The Kāpiti Coast District Council building where a staff member says she was indecently assaulted.

The jury took three-and-a-half hours to make its decision.

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Outside court, Scott said he felt the "false" accusation was political and because he did things like oppose the chief executive officer's salary increase.

"It feels like they are trying to kill me," he said.

He was unsure what it meant for his future in council, but said there was a meeting tomorrow and he was hoping to be there.

He has been remanded on bail until next month for sentencing. Judge Peter Hobbs did not enter a conviction after he was asked not to by defence lawyer Mike Antunovic.

Antunovic said he was not sure if they would be applying for a discharge without conviction for Scott, but it needed to be considered.

In a closing address, Crown prosecutor Kate Feltham told the jury that David Scott pressing himself against a employee was deliberate and gross.

Feltham said there were really two issues for them to deal with.

"Did he assault her in the way she described and if so was that intentional?"

Feltham said the woman was a professional and gave evidence in a calm, coherent and logical manner.

"She was sure of what happened and she told you simply."

Feltham said it was fairly obvious that he did mean the assault to be indecent.

"It's not suggested it was some kind of joke. What it was was brief ... spontaneous, deliberate and just gross."

She said the complainant was someone prepared to do something about Scott's inappropriate behaviour.

Antunovic said he couldn't ask the jury to like Scott, but he could ask them to give him a fair go.

He said it was accepted that Scott moved behind the woman during the morning tea, but that any movement he made was not done with any criminal intent.

It was loud, noisy and a lot of chatter and there were a lot of people going by, he said.

"And then Scott thinks I should go and commit my first criminal offence, target [woman] and commit indecent assault, given that there are only 10 or 12 people in this room and that the mayor is right there," Antunovic said.

"That's just nuts, crazy and utter nonsense."

He said it was quite the coincidence that Scott's wallet was four-and-a-half inches long when she had said what she felt was four or five inches long.

The woman, whose name is suppressed, had told the jury she was disgusted to feel Scott rubbing his genitals against her.

"I felt a touch on my right hip as if someone was asking me to move so I moved, about half-a-metre, then the hand came back and I felt a man's body rubbing along the left-hand side of me and another hand grabbed my other hip, gripping me very tightly," she said.

"I couldn't move forward. I could feel a stomach and a belt buckle and parts of a man's anatomy pushing around my backside and buttocks."

Antunovic, sought to prove she could not have felt Scott's penis by asking for his measurements to be taken to by a doctor on Tuesday and provided to the jury.