A MAN has been arrested over the bashing death of a 29-year-old woman in her Victorian home.
Police announced late on Monday they had arrested a 30-year-old man over the woman's death, hours after telling reporters her traumatised four-year-old son had seen the man suspected of killing her.
The boy told police he saw an unknown man inside his Ballarat home, west of Melbourne, on the night his mother died.
Relatives found her body in her bedroom on Saturday morning.
Police say she was assaulted with a blunt object and suffered injuries to her head and body.
Detective Inspector John Potter, head of Victoria's homicide squad, said the boy spotted a man inside the house before her death, but couldn't identify him.
"It's pretty difficult to take it much further than that," Det Insp Potter told reporters earlier on Monday.
"We're talking darkish clothing, and that's probably the best we've got."
The boy and his mother had gone out on Friday night but returned home by 8.30pm (AEDT).
The stranger then entered the house at some point between 8.30pm Friday and 10.30am Saturday.
Det Insp Potter said police believe the man was involved in the mum's slaying but can't pinpoint the exact time he was inside the home.
The boy would have been aware of what happened to his mum, he said.
"You can imagine under these circumstances the child is extremely traumatised," he said.
Police say there were no signs of forced entry and it's possible the woman knew the man.
Det Insp Potter said security footage from nearby businesses was being viewed for clues.
He said police had spoken to the woman's former partner and followed those lines of inquiry "thoroughly".
"This is quite a brutal crime to a woman in her own home so we're very keen to work out who's responsible," he said.
A 30-year-old Sebastopol man was in police custody and being interviewed, police said just before 10pm (AEST) on Monday.
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