TWIN BABIES

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The mum once reviled as “Britain’s most hated woman” after paying to adopt baby twins from America says she would love to meet the girls one last time now they’re all grown up.

Judith Kilshaw and her husband Alan sparked an international outcry in December 2000 when they paid £8,200 to adopt the girls, then brought them home to Wales.

The trouble began when another couple came forward, claiming they had already adopted the tots.

The full story of the cash-for-babies scandal that gripped the world two decades ago is to be told on TV for the first time in documentary Three Mothers, Two Babies and a Scandal, which launches tomorrow on Prime Video.

The Mirror tracked the girls down in 2019, revealing how they had flourished and were starting university to study social science.

Judith, now 67, said: “Every day I think about what might have happened, what life might be like now if the girls had stayed with us.

“It’s usually a nice outcome in my mind, but that’s all ifs and buts and maybes really, isn’t it? You’ve got to face reality. I’m glad they moved on, I’m glad they went to university, I’m glad they have a life... that’s the best thing you can hope for.

“All I want now is to find peace, and that’s the thing I still haven’t managed to find. I would like to meet them, but together with the others. It would be a very interesting meet if everybody involved could come together, say our piece and make our peace.”

It’s her desire to find closure that made Judith agree to take part in the Prime Video series.

The three-part documentary hears from the women at the heart of the story, including the girls’ biological mother Tranda Wecker, and Vickie Allen. With her then-husband Richard, Vickie had already adopted the girls

I’m glad they went to uni, I’m glad they have a life JUDITH KILSHAW ON THE BABIES SHE LOST