A 17-year-old man has been arrested after an elderly woman was attacked on her own property in her own home in the Pickersleigh area of Malvern yesterday (Thursday).

The woman, aged 82, was in her garden at Steamer Point, off Bawdsey Avenue, at about 3.30pm when two men came in to the garden.

The men pushed her back into her house, where one put his had over her mouth and held her down on her bed, while the other man searched the house.

The resident then gesticulated that she needed the toilet. She was allowed to go to the nearby toilet, she then went into the rear garden and screamed.

The two men escaped through the back door into the garden and fled over the garden wall.

Police said that the 17-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of burglary and is in custody.

Anyone with information is urged to call police on 101, quoting incident number 0550s/010617.

More information will be posted as it becomes available.