PLATELL'S PEOPLE:The most ungrateful migrant in the world

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South London’s leafy district of Kennington is one of the city’s best-kept secrets. In this quiet area famous for its Georgian architecture, the average house price is more than £1 million.

It is full of young families, good schools, council housing and NHS doctors’ surgeries. Residents are proud of its strong, diverse, multi-cultural community spirit.

So one would imagine that when, in 2008, teenager Alaa Esayed found refuge here with her family from Iraq — where they had faced persecution, suicide bombings, terrorist attacks and constant fear — she would have treasured her new haven.

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Alaa Esayed found refuge here from Iraq in 2008 and began using her home as a base in Kennington to become the Twitter Terrorist

Offered sanctuary, housing, free education and healthcare, she and her family were at last being given an opportunity to thrive and prosper.

Instead, Esayed, who is now 22, used their Kennington home as a base from which to launch a jihadist hate campaign that has seen her dubbed the Twitter Terrorist.

From her bedroom, she posted images to Twitter of beheadings, mutilated corpses and any atrocity she could lay her hands on to promote the jihadi cause — 45,600 tweets in total, and an average of 58 a day.

The bedroom jihadist called on Muslims to murder English infidels — in effect, her neighbours, schoolmates and fellow citizens. She called on Muslim mothers to become ‘martyrs’, to build training camps in their back gardens and to give children weapons instead of PlayStations.

What’s really terrifying is that she had 8,240 followers on her sick site of hate. Yesterday Esayed was jailed for three-and-a-half years, after academics singled out her Twitter account as one of the most influential hate campaigns in the Islamist world.

It is completely bewildering that a young girl fleeing persecution could have so cruelly turned on the very country that offered her and her family safety and a new life.

In Iraq this young woman feared for her life and was treated like a second-class citizen. Here she was educated, protected and nurtured.

And yet she still claimed: ‘I wish to be a martyr for the land of jihad and am happy to answer the one call and my Lord help me attain what I want, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.’

She has not just betrayed this country, but every decent, law-abiding Muslim who cherishes our freedoms. When she leaves prison, she should be given a one-way ticket back to Iraq — and never be allowed near our shores again.

Just zip it, Becker...  

Promoting his new book, Boris Becker says the story of how his daughter Anna was conceived in a restaurant’s broom cupboard with a woman he had just met was ‘embarrassing and very sad’.

He added: ‘It left Anna’s mother and me having to set about being parents without any relation- ship of our own to fall back on.’

He’s now fiercely protective of his daughter’s peace and privacy. So why on earth does he feel the need to return to the subject of her conception, talking publicly and in detail about that breathless and very brief sexual encounter?

Dear Carol, we are bored of your new look already!

Kim off it, Carol

Carol Vorderman is clever, curvaceous and captivatingly sexy, with a body most 54-year-olds would kill for.

So why was she wearing a skintight, hi-viz, bottom-clutching yellow dress that looked like one of Kim Kardashian’s cast-offs?

And with yellow hair to match. Carol says her change of image is due to her very low boredom threshold. Yes, pet, and we are all bored with this look already.

Memo to the magnificent Helen Mirren, snapped in New York City without a shred of make-up at the age of 69. 

If most of us looked half as good as you do, we’d never buy lipstick again.

Don't mess with gardners! 

As a keen gardener, I can understand how a punch-up happened when one neighbour watered the communal hanging baskets incorrectly.

David Rae, 68, succumbed to nozzle rage and attacked Stanley Smith, 86, after he used a hosepipe rather than a sprinkler on his precious petunias. 

Plants, like their keepers, are delicate creatures. And this case is a timely warning to my neighbour, who is in charge of my garden this weekend while I’m away.

Hard to believe Liz Hurley is half-a-century old and still wearing the slashed-to-the-crotch dresses she carried off in the Eighties. 

But well done her — even more so, since she is rightly proud that she’s still close to her exes Hugh Grant, Arun Nayar and Shane Warne, and they play an active role in her 13-year-old son Damian’s life. Just a pity none of them are his dad.

BBC double fault

Sad news that John Inverdale has been dropped as the anchor for the BBC’s Wimbledon highlights. 

He brought experience, expertise and colour to our screens even when it was pouring with rain. More depressing still is that he’s been replaced by the omnipresent Clare Balding. 

Religion, rugby, rambling — is there nothing for which this amiable woman is not a jack of all trades and master of none? 

Even she admits she does too much broadcasting.

It is sad news that John Inverdale, pictured, has been dropped by the BBC for their Wimbledon coverage

When Sir Paul McCartney, 72, had a tulip named after him, its creators said the red bloom with white border was a salute to his home-town football team, Liverpool. Nonsense, it was a tribute to his hair colour.

Just ten months after he was convicted of the culpable homicide of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, Oscar Pistorius could be freed. 

Evidently he’s taken anger management courses to secure an early release. Pity he didn’t take them before he blasted Reeva to death in the loo. 

How ridiculous that Benedict Cumberbatch is to be awarded a CBE at the tender age of 38, just as we learn that Sir Christopher Lee has died at the age of 93, having received his only 14 years ago. 

Cumberbatch should turn it down, on the grounds that the honour was indecently premature. 

As his alter ego, Sherlock Holmes, said: ‘The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.’

The 23-year-old British backpacker Eleanor Hawkins, who stripped and posted selfies on Malaysia’s most sacred mountain, was sentenced to three days in jail and has been fined. 

A nice criminal record to take home from her hols. Can’t wait for her prison selfies.

No dignity for Diana 

Diana's dress, pictured, is being auctioned 

The Versace dress Princess Diana wore on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar in 1997, the year of her death, is expected to fetch more than £52,000 at auction in the United States.

Isn’t there something rather sad about her frocks being flogged to the highest bidder, when they should surely be in a museum here in Britain?

And for all of Prince William’s fine gestures honouring his mother, there’s still not one dignified Diana memorial in this country.

The luscious Pippa Middleton is all over Hello! magazine promoting a charity bike ride for the British Heart Foundation.

I commend her philanthropy, but how much more admirable this freeloader would be if she got off her backside, found a proper job and didn’t use every opportunity going to promote her famous Lycra-clad buttocks. 

Finally fulfilling his dream to be in movies, David Beckham has a cameo role in Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur film, Knights Of The Round Table.

Insiders reveal it will be in the scene when Excalibur is drawn from the stone — no doubt the monosyllabic Becks is playing the stone. 

David Beckham, pictured, right with Guy Ritchie, has finally got a cameo role in the director's new film.