Gavin Kennett, 48, of no fixed address, appeared in Warrnambool Magistrates Court on Monday charged with aggravated burglary, theft, threatening to inflict serious injury, threatening to kill a police officer and assaulting an emergency service worker on duty.

He made no application for bail and was remanded in custody.

He will appear in Hamilton Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

Police allege the man went to a property in Hamilton's Gray Street last Friday.

He walked down a driveway and then attempted to enter the home through a locked side door while the nine-year-old girl was home.

"The child saw the man, rang her mother, who was nearby, and hid in a bedroom until help arrived," a police spokesman said.

"The man then went to a garage, the mother arrived home and was unaware the man was in the garage.

"The man has removed clothes from a clothes line and then attempted to leave by walking down the driveway."

The police spokesman said the woman approached and confronted the intruder, demanding he return the clothing.

"He's handed back the items he was holding and the woman demanded he also return the items he had hidden in his jacket, which he did," he said.

"The woman said she was calling the police and the man said if she did he would come back and hurt her."

Police officers attended, located the man in his vehicle and arrested him.

When the man was told back at the police station he was being remanded in custody, he threatened to kill the officers, saying he had access to guns.

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