Judge to rule on internet twins adoption

A hearing to decide the future of the US twins adopted over the internet by a British couple has ended at the High Court in London.

Mr Justice Kirkwood, who has ordered a total reporting ban on the hearing, is expected to give his judgment on Monday.

Flintshire social services, which took Belinda and Kimberley into care in January, had applied to have the children made wards of court.

If the judge agrees, he will then have to rule on whether to deal with the case in this country or return the twins, now nine months old, to the US.

If they are not made wards, they will be returned to Alan and Judith Kilshaw, from Buckley, north Wales, who claim they paid a US baby broker £8,200 to adopt them.