A 30-year-old man allegedly choked his former partner with a telephone cord before forcibly cutting her hair, saying "no one will love you now", a court has heard.

The Ballarat man, whom Fairfax Media has chosen not to name, allegedly hacked the victim's email and Facebook account in October, enabling him to see intimate messages between the woman and her new partner, which police believe caused the alleged attack.

A bail application for the man, who has been charged with a number of offences including aggravated burglary and breaching an intervention order, was adjourned at Ballarat Magistrates Court on Wednesday. The court heard that on October 14, the man allegedly broke into the victim's Ballarat home, where their two children were present in another bedroom, and wrapped an old telephone cord around the woman's neck and said: "I'm going to kill you this time."

Senior Constable Jaime Gillard, of Ballarat's Crime Investigation Unit, told the court the man allegedly cut 40 centimetres off the victim's hair with scissors before stealing her car and fleeing to Tasmania.

The man got a friend to book him a flight to Launceston, but, after arriving in Tasmania on October 30, he was arrested at Devonport by detectives, the court heard.