A woman who controversially bought twin babies over the internet says she hopes to be reunited with the children once again - to honour her ex husband's dying wish.
Judith and Alan Kilshaw were at the centre of a cash-for-babies outcry that gripped the world in 2000 and 2001 after they paid £8,200 to adopt two girls named Kiara and Keyara Wecke.
Judith, 66, revealed Alan, 63, died last month from a lung disease - but before passing, had dreamed of seeing the now grown-up girls once again.
She told the Sunday People she is going to try to meet up with the girls who were taken back to the US when they were removed from the Kilshaw's care in 2001.
The couple from Buckley in Flintshire bought the twins via an adoption broker in 2000 and renamed them Kimberley and Belinda.
It quickly emerged they had been scammed and the same broker had already sold the girls for £4,000 to another couple named Richard and Vickie Allen.
Eventually the girls were taken back to the US after a High Court ruling and adopted by a third couple.
The Kilshaws went broke trying to fight for the girls' return and Alan was struck off from his job over the scandal before Judith left him for another man in 2007.
Judith left Alan and her two sons and married 'toyboy lover' Stephen Sillett, 42, who she met in a nightclub.
The Kilshaws remained friends with Alan even walking his ex lover down the aisle. Now, Judith is determined to meet both 'Kimberley' and 'Belinda' although they now have new names.
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Judith Kilshaw, who bought two baby girls online in 2000, said she hopes to speak to the twins again after her husband's death
Kiara and Keyara Wecker hit headlines in 2001 when Alan and Judith Kilshaw (pictured with the children) tried to buy them for £8,200. Right: The girls on their 16th birthday
She said to the Sunday People: 'He told me he had always regarded the twins as ours and his last wish was for me to go to America and try to make contact with them. I don't know if this will be possible but I will do everything I can to honour his dying request.'
'I'd like to know how their lives went, what they've done, where they've been. I'd want to tell them about my life. I do think about them. Do they know about me and Alan, do they think about what happened to us?
Alan and Judith Kilshaw are pictured together with Judith's second husband Stephen Sillett in 2009
'It would be a good, fascinating conversation. At least the girls have come out good. I'm pleased about that.'
Judith was plunged into financial ruin alongside her then-partner Alan after launching a legal battle to adopt Kiara and Keyara Wecke in 2001 after they had bought them online for £8,200.
Kiara and Keyara, who have been renamed, were given a new set of church-going adoptive parents in America. The girls are now 18 and are said to be 'thriving' as students, studying social sciences at university.
In August last year Judith told MailOnline she still thinks of the twins as 'part of the family' and reveals she misses them greatly.
'Of course we still miss them,' she said. 'As far as I'm concerned, they are still part of this family as the adoption was turned over by dubious means.
'If someone takes your name, then the adoption is overturned and the twins are taken away from you by dubious methods, to me that adoption still stands legally.'
'I'm pleased that the girls have gone to university,' she said. 'Obviously I would have preferred them to stay in Britain. At least they've come out of it pretty unscathed and they're doing well.
In 2000, Kiera and Keyara were first adopted by US couple Richard and Vickie Allen (pictured), who said they had paid £4,000 for the children through an adoption agency
'They're coping well and seem well-adjusted if they've got that far in life. They'd have gone to university if they stayed with us in Britain, that's for sure.'
Missouri-born twins Kiara and Keyara Wecker were just six months old in 2001, when the Kilshaws, of Buckley, North Wales, tried to buy them over the internet for £8,200.
The deal was already completed and the twins taken back to Wales when the Kilshaws realized a California couple had already paid to take custody of the kids through an adoption agency - all thanks to a scam perpetrated by their birth mother.
Despite their separation, Judith visited him in hospital every day and left Stephen in February because Alan was in need. She thought it would only be for a month or so but when she realised the severity of his illness she gave up her job as a cleaner in the Co-op.
In December Alan died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, the same chronic lung disease which also killed TV star Keith Chegwin, 60.
Alan and Judith Kilshaw speak to reporters outside their farmhouse in Buckley, north Wales shortly after the twins were taken out of their custody
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