Kapiti Coast District councillor David Scott says he will not stand down from his position despite being found guilty of indecent assault against a female council staff member. Photo / Mark Mitchel
Kapiti Coast District councillor David Scott says he will not stand down from his position despite being found guilty of indecent assault against a female council staff member. Photo / Mark Mitchel
Defiant Kāpiti Coast district councillor David Scott is refusing to stand down from his position despite being found guilty of indecent assault against a female council staff member.
The 71-year-old said he had received more than 100 messages of support from ratepayers wanting him to remain at his post.
Thejury at a trial at Wellington District Court took three and a half hours to reach the guilty verdict today.
The Crown had argued Scott pressed himself against a Kāpiti Coast District Council employee at a morning tea following a council meeting in April last year.
The female complainant rejected suggestions that what she felt pressing into her could have been a wallet, phone or insulin kit, rather than male genitalia.
She said what she felt was about four or five inches.
Under cross examination defence lawyer Mike Antunovic asked Scott's GP to measure the length of Scott's penis in a separate room. That measurement was suppressed.
Speaking to the Herald tonight, Scott said he would not attend a council meeting on Thursday but vowed to remain working as a councillor as he had not yet been convicted.
