THE victim of a model’s murder-for-hire plot has described her as one of the “most evil people I’ve ever met”.

Tara Lambert, 35, was caught asking an undercover policeman to murder Kellie Cooke into a in 2015.

Lambert pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to commit aggravated murder and was sentenced to just five years in prison — something Cooke believes is far too short.

Her victim described the model, who was stepmother to her children, as “one of the most evil people I’ve ever met,” during an appearance on Dr Phil in the US.

Video shown during the trial showed Lambert in a car with the detective, who she thought was a contract killer, and laughing as she asked him to kill Cooke.

“I hate her,” Lambert said of Cooke in the video.

The policeman asks: “What do you want done with her?”

“Just put her in a chopper, you know like one of those lumberjack chopper things.”

When the detective said he didn’t have access to a wood chopper, Lambert replied that she was “joking” and that she was actually thinking of a “home invasion gone wrong.”

She told him she wanted Cooke “gone.”

‘I need her away,’ she said.

The court heard that Lambert had also given $150 to the undercover policeman and given him Cooke’s photo.

Police have said the plot came about over a fight over visitation rights of her two step-children.

The two women reportedly fought bitterly over arrangements and Cooke was said to not approve of Lambert’s dress-sense when she was in charge of the kids.

Lambert is reportedly married to Brandon Lambert, who is the father of Cooke’s two teenage girls.

Asked her thoughts on hearing Lambert’s plan, Cooke told Dr Phil: “Yeah it is hard to wrap my head around.”

Lambert was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2016.

An appeals court overturned that conviction last year, saying there was an error in the original indictment. She will get credit for time served from the earlier conviction.

Lambert was earlier cleared of conspiring to murder Cooke’s husband, Shawn, if he was at home when the hitman came to kill his wife.

Kellie Cooke’s victim statement was read out in court by her daughter, 18-year-old Aspen Lambert, earlier this year.

“I knew what you were capable of. You lied, manipulated and controlled everything my girls done … You wanted my girls,” Cooke had written to Lambert.

“When you figured out I was on to you, you snapped. You tormented my family for a long time with no punishment.”