Kilshaws consider appeal over internet twins
Alan and Judith Kilshaw are considering whether to continue their battle to keep the nine-month-old babies they say they legally adopted over the internet.
A High Court judge has made an order which will result in the twins being returned to Missouri in the US where they were born.
However, lawyers for the couple say they are considering taking the case to the Court of Appeal.
Mr Justice Kirkwood gave his ruling in private in London yesterday then issued a statement in which he said Belinda and Kimberley would be looked after by foster parents in the US pending a decision by a Missouri court as to what was in their best interests.
The statement read: "The court held that it would not be in the welfare interests of the twins for them to be returned to Mr and Mrs Kilshaw."
The couple, from Buckley, north Wales, who say they paid a US baby broker £8,200 to adopt the girls, began a legal battle with Flintshire Social Services in January when it took the girls into care.
Mr and Mrs Kilshaw left the court via a private judges' entrance without commenting, but their lawyers announced from the front of the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand that the couple were "very disappointed with the decision".
They say they only wanted the best for the twins.
Belinda and Kimberley, also the subject of a custody battle involving their natural mother and father, are currently being cared for by foster parents in north Wales.
