Judith Kilshaw tells of happiness

THE British mum who bought twin babies on the internet says she is happy they are thriving with their adoptive family in the US, 18 years on.

Judith Kilshaw and her then husband Alan tried to adopt six-month-old sisters Kiara and Keyara Wecker from their American mum Tranda after handing over £8200.

But British social services stepped in and the babies were returned to the US, where they were adopted by a loving churchgoing family with whom they still live under new names we have chosen not to reveal.

We told yesterday how the girls, now 18, have just started university where they are studying social sciences. It was the first Judith, now 64, had heard of the life of the babies she had cradled all those years ago.

She said: “I’m pleased they’re doing well. That’s all I’ve ever really wanted, for them to have a stable life, a good life.”

But she still believes she should have been allowed to bring them up in the UK.

She said: “I think they should have stayed with me and Alan.”

Judith keeps faded photographs of the girls BY PAUL BYRNE from their brief time with her in Britain and she admits she looks at them every now and then and wonders what might have been.

She said: “They’re 18? That’s gone quick. I wonder what they look like.

“I wonder how they feel, the girls, I wonder if they’ve been told the truth of what happened. I do wonder if they know about me and Alan.

Judith and Alan split in 2006 and three years later she married Stephen Sillett, 51. But she remains on good terms with her ex and he even walked her down the aisle at her wedding.

Former solicitor Alan, 63, is now seriously ill in hospital and Judith plans to care for him when he returns to his home in Shotton, Wales.

She and Stephen live together in Rhosllanerchrugog but when asked if they are a couple, she said: “Not really, in a sense yes and in a sense no. It is a bit of a muddle.”

Judith says she and Alan, who have sons James, 25, and Rupert, 22, often speak about the twin girls they had hoped to raise.

“It’s a shame that they aren’t going to university around here,” she said.

“I wish they had stayed in Britain, we have very good universities in Britain.

“I would have wanted them to have made something of their life – be professional, get a good education, make good life choices.”

The mum of four, who has five cats and a dog and also looks after her ex’s five cats, said: “I wanted them to go into law or the medical field, or even the veterinary field. That would have been handy, with all these animals.