Internet adoption couple deny fraud claims

A couple who adopted twins on the internet deny they knew of a deliberate attempt to defraud US authorities in order to have the girls.

Alan and Judith Kilshaw of Buckley, North Wales, said it was totally untrue that they had known Tranda Wecker, the natural mother of the girls, had lied about her address in order to have the children adopted.

Ms Wecker, who lives in Missouri, said that she falsely claimed that she lived with her aunt near Little Rock, Arkansas, in order to fulfil the state law.

"Certainly, as far as I am concerned, this is news to me," Mr Kilshaw said.