Man convicted of attempted murder in Suffolk
It follows an incident in Pinewood last year.
Last updated 23rd Sep 2025
A 24-year-old man from Ipswich has been found guilty of attempted murder following an incident in Pinewood last year.
Elliott Mallett, of Hawthorn Drive, was convicted at Ipswich Crown Court today, Tuesday 23 September, following a trial lasting just over three weeks.
Mallett was also found guilty of a further offence of aggravated burglary with intent to steal.
Officers were called to Admiral Road just before 4.55pm on Saturday 7 December, to reports of a burglary during which a woman sustained stab wounds.
The victim – a woman aged in her 40s - reported that she was upstairs at her home address when she heard a noise downstairs and went to investigate, at which point she encountered Mallett on the stairs. He was not previously known to her.
The victim described seeing Mallett pull a knife from the side of his body and he then lunged forward, stabbing her eight times in the neck, face, hands, shoulder and leg. She managed to fight back and thinks that she ultimately got him off her by kicking out and causing him to stumble down the stairs, where he fell into a piece of furniture.
The victim then managed to run out of her house and seek help from a neighbour and she saw Mallett run away in the direction of Ellenbrook Park. Emergency services were called and the victim was taken to hospital where she was treated for her injuries and subsequently discharged later that night.
A short time after the attack, police officers conducting searches in Ellenbrook Park were approached by a man who claimed he had just been the victim of an attempted knifepoint robbery. He said he was thrown to the floor and the attacker tried to stab him and that he in turn had tried to grab the knife. The officers asked this man for his name and he said it was ‘Elliott Mallett’.
Mallett was taken home and met by other officers who began to take a statement from him for being a victim of an alleged robbery. Discrepancies began to appear between the account he was giving to the officers for the statement and the information he had provided to the officers in the park.
The officers taking the statement raised their concerns over these discrepancies and these were communicated to the senior investigating officer, who made the decision that Mallett should be treated as a suspect as he appeared to be falsifying his evidence.
In the early hours of the following morning, Sunday 8 December, officers re-attended Mallett’s home and arrested him. Officers were then able to seize his phone and search his house.
Doorbell camera footage from his front door showed that he had left the house at 3.45pm on the Saturday afternoon wearing all black clothing, including a black puffer jacket and his hood up partially covering his face. This matched the description of the suspect provided by the victim.
Later on the Sunday morning a member of the public informed officers in the area that they had found a knife in Swallowtail Close, which was approximately a four-minute walk from the victim’s house.
Analysis of Mallett’s phone found that at 6.19pm on the day of the attack, he had messaged a friend saying that ‘something had happened’ and that he ‘had almost got stabbed and some woman got stabbed as well and put in hospital’.
None of the officers Mallett had spoken to had explained the nature of the victim’s injuries to him and no information had been released to the media at this stage, therefore Mallett displayed prior knowledge of the attack that further deepened suspicions that he was the person responsible for it.
Elliott Mallett was subsequently charged with attempted murder on Monday 9 December and made his first court appearance the following day.
Mallett had denied being the person responsible for the attack, but the jury found him guilty of attempted murder and aggravated burglary by unanimous decisions.
He has been remanded in custody pending a sentencing hearing to be held at Ipswich Crown Court on Friday 5 December.
Detective Constable Alice Gaffer, the officer in the case, said: “Elliott Mallett subjected the victim to a terrifying ordeal in her own home – the one place everyone should have the right to feel safe and secure.
“The victim demonstrated incredible bravery in fighting him off and then managing to escape to a neighbour’s house to raise the alarm. It is a miracle her physical injuries were not more serious given the size of the knife she was attacked with.
“I know this incident has had a huge impact on the victim’s life and caused her great emotional cost. It has affected her sense of security, her confidence and her ability to get back to life as normal. It ultimately forced her to move away from the area so she could feel safe again.
“I hope today’s verdict can provide her with some additional reassurance that her attacker has been brought to justice and hopefully bring her some degree of closure in that respect.”