Jamie Nigel Ian Peters was jailed for six years and two months after earlier admitting a raft of offences.

Jamie Nigel Ian Peters will not have to pay for the $100,000 damage and losses from his six-month crime spree – reparation was seen futile as he began a long jail term.

The 26-year-old was jailed for six years and two months on 31 charges he had admitted ahead of his Christchurch District Court sentencing by Judge Alistair Garland.

The judge totalled the losses, harm, and damage to be about $100,000 and said it was unfortunate Peters was not able to offer repayment to any of his victims.

"I have taken that into account in the final sentence I have imposed," he said.

Peters admitted the theft of three cars, being unlawfully in a yard, unlawfully taking vehicles, stealing from cars, 11 burglaries, dishonestly using bank or credit cards, theft, and receiving stolen property.

He had left a trail of clues for police during his offending, including fingerprints, DNA, and surveillance video images.

In January 2018, Peters was with a group that smashed a stolen Toyota Hilux through the front gates of a property at McLeans Island. It was followed by a second vehicle with a trailer. The group was disturbed by someone at the property and drove away.

The vehicles were seen at McLeans Island later, with two people moving property out of the Hilux and into the other vehicle's trailer before they drove off. The Hilux was found burnt out an hour later.

Ten days later, Peters took a Nissan ute from a Wairakei Rd property. His fingerprints were found inside when it was found on a tree stump behind Burwood Hospital. More than $1000 worth of work equipment had been taken from the car.

Peters broke into another vehicle in Kotuku Cres and took a wallet, licence, debit card and work equipment worth thousands of dollars. He left behind a set a set of pliers that had his DNA on them.

His thumb print was found on a vehicle stolen from Christchurch and found damaged in Governors Bay. The vehicle was written off. Another print was in a Land Cruiser taken from Tinwald and found partly submerged in the Waimakariri River.

The offending continued to mid-2018, with burglaries, thefts from cars, and use of stolen bank or credit cards.

Security cameras recorded Peters using a stolen credit card taken from a house in Westmorland. He left a glove, which had his DNA on it, inside the house.

In one burglary, a Porsche Carrera sports car worth $250,000 was taken. The car was involved in a police pursuit, which police abandoned because of the risk to the public. The car was found abandoned in Lismore St, with Peters' fingerprint inside.

The crime spree came to an end early on June 7, 2018, when Peters and another person were disturbed breaking into a car in Shirley. They ran off and left in a Nissan Primera, which had been stolen two weeks earlier in Redwood.

Police found the Nissan in Banks Ave, with Peters and the other person still inside.

Peters also owes $16,500 to the criminal justice system in bills for reparation, fines, and enforcement fees from his previous offending. He has already served a three-year sentence for earlier offending.

Both defence counsel Donald Matthews and Crown prosecutor Heather McKenzie agreed that any proposal for Peters to pay reparations was "academic".

Peters had apologised to some of his victims at a restorative justice meeting.

They felt they had to sell their house at a considerable loss after his burglary because they no longer felt safe there.