Ms Eades said she had left her bag next to her desk as normal that morning and at 11am was with a patient in a consultation room when the patient's support person came in to tell her that she had seen a man leave with a handbag.
"I went to check to see if it was mine and it was missing."
Ms Eades said she later checked the electronic booking system to see who the person may have been based on the time they left and the only person was Bryant.
She said no other males were in the building at the time and told the court the stolen items were valued at $650.
A second witness, the support person who alerted Ms Eades to the theft, told the court she saw a man leave the clinic and return about an hour later.
She said the man walked down the hallway and she thought he was going to find a nurse, however she "was alerted" to movement above the reception desk.
She walked over to the desk and saw the man crawling toward the desk on his hands and knees holding a handbag. He then rushed past her, saying "excuse me", and left the building with the bag.
Judge David Cameron asked her how sure she was that the man who took the bag was the same man who had left earlier.
"Positive," she said.
A third witness, a patient of the clinic, said she saw a man matching Bryant's description sitting in a car when she arrived, but said that after two years she had trouble describing the car.
The final witness, Constable Jason Wakeling, told the court he stopped Bryant for driving without a seatbelt in Wanganui in December 2012 and then learned he was wanted for questioning over the theft of the handbag.
Mr Wakeling arrested him, took him to the Wanganui Police Station and attempted to contact a lawyer for him, but was unsuccessful.
He gave Bryant the option of being summonsed to court or continuing with the written statement, to which Bryant replied "kiss my f****** a*** I'm not saying f*** all to you".
Judge Cameron said he was satisfied the person who took the handbag was Bryant and said he had "by his actions clearly intended to deprive the owner permanently" of it.
Bryant was convicted, ordered to appear for sentencing if called upon in the next 12 months and ordered to pay $300 in reparations to cover Ms Eade's insurance excess.
In summing up, Judge Cameron acknowledged Bryant had chosen not to give evidence but after sentencing Bryant asked to say something.
"I had no reason to take that bag, the first I heard of it was when I was pulled up," he told the court.