By Rachel Smith & Antony Clements-Thrower A stalker who claimed in a letter from prison to a woman his mum had died was caught out when his mother contacted her. Following his release from prison in August last year, Mitchell Newns woke the woman by shouting her name and making a banging noise. Concerned, she stayed in her bedroom and called her sister who found Newns had damaged the side gate and a wooden panel on the shed. Preston Crown Court heard Newns claimed he had been collecting a strimmer and accused his ex of being with another man. The following month, the woman contacted her ex tel…