A new arrest warrant was issued for Teaahu Reti after he absconded while on electronic bail for a series of driving charges. (File photo)

A man with a history of bail breaches has absconded on electronic bail ahead of sentencing for leading police on a high-speed pursuit in Christchurch.

Teaahu Reti, 46, was arrested in June after a police pursuit from Shirley to Linwood at up to 90kmh.

It ended in Jollie St after he drove through roadworks into a no entry area where fencing and machinery blocked the road. He turned sharp left off the road and crashed through a construction fence, and then a house fence on to a lawn of a property.

He jumped out and ran away from the vehicle while it was still moving, and it crashed to a stop against another house fence. A police dog tracked him to a property nearby.

Reti admitted charges of dangerous driving, failing to stop for the police, and possession of morphine.

He also admitted three breaches of his bail, and a breach of his prison release conditions.

Reti has been in contact by text with his lawyer Kirsty May since he absconded from his electronically monitored bail a month ago.

But he did not go to Community Probation for his pre-sentence report interview, and he was not at court for his scheduled sentencing by Judge Peter Rollo on Wednesday.

Another judge had issued an arrest warrant a month ago, with an order that it be held until sentencing. But with Reti's non-appearance, Judge Rollo ordered that it should now be executed.