A knifeman who stabbed a woman eight times in her own home during a burglary pretended to be a victim when speaking to police officers. Footage released by Suffolk Police shows Elliott Mallett, 24, of Hawthorn Drive, Ipswich, Suffolk, approaching officers in a nearby park following the “ferocious and senseless attack” on 7 December 2024. “Someone has literally just attacked me… They hit me repeatedly, they tried to stab me,” he told them. After discrepancies appeared in Mallett’s account of