JUDITH Kilshaw will fight to get back the twins she bought over the internet if there is any chance of them being returned to their natural mother.

Judith has criticised a court ruling which could result in the girls going back to their biological mother, Tranda Wecker.

Ms Wecker twice offered her twin daughters for adoption over the internet but should not have been stripped of her parental rights, according to a US court.

Judith who, together with husband Alan, bought the babies before they were taken into care and flown back to the US, is concerned the decision may eventually lead to Belinda and Kimberley going back to Ms Wecker.

'It's absolutely disgraceful,' she said. We don't know why this has happened but we are sending a letter saying they should not go back to their mother.'

Judith now lives with Alan in Shot-ton, North Wales, after the couple were forced to sell their Westminster Park home in Chester due to bankruptcy. She knows it is in the interests of the girls, now aged three, to stay with their adoptive parents in the US but, as a last resort, she would fight to get them back.

Said Judith: 'I'm not saying I want the girls back, I don't know them now. But if there was a chance they might go back to their mother...

'I don't know what her motivation is. She might want to write a book, she might want compensation for the 'missing years' or do a film. Who knows what's in her mind but Tranda is out for what she can get.'

The Kilshaws gained notoriety when they were portrayed as 'buying babies' following an £8,200 payment to a Californian internet adoption agency to gain custody of the twins. Unknown to them, another couple had already come to an arrangement with the agency, leaving the Kilshaws to fight an expensive and damaging legal battle.

The twins were taken away by social services, who alleged 'emotional harm', and were returned to the US. The Kilshaws claim that one interesting piece of evidence has emerged in the latest court case which could help the couple improve their image. The court heard that the girls suffered from reactive detachment order which means the girls had failed to bond shortly after birth. Judith explained the babies were premature and had to be incubated for three months. She doubts whether much bonding took place with Ms Wecker in the six months before she and Alan brought the babies over to the UK.

She added: 'Social services said they had suffered emotional harm because they didn't cry enough. And the symptoms of this detachment disorder includes apathy. I suspect they were already suffering from it before me and Alan even set eyes on them.'

Judith now hopes to use the evidence to gain a judicial review which could clear the Kilshaw name.