"Evil" girlfriend Joanne Griffiths 'ordered boyfriend to murder ex'

AN “evil” woman ordered her boyfriend to kill her child’s dad, a court heard.

Joanne Griffiths, 41, allegedly told Peter Hood, 45, to kill Jason Bissell to stop him seeing her six-month old daughter.

Mr Bissell, 39, was hit with a hammer, gagged with tape and thrown in a lake last October. Prosecutor Gareth Evans told Birmingham crown court: “He killed to her order.”

Hood, of Nuneaton, Warks, admits murder but ­Griffiths, of Coventry, does not. The case continues.