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Web adoption pair face public gaze

The Kilshaws will answer questions from the audience
The Kilshaws will answer questions from the audience

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CHESTER, England -- The British couple who tried to adopt twin baby girls over the Internet are preparing to appear on stage in a sell-out theatre show.

Alan and Judith Kilshaw caused international outrage last year when it emerged they had bought and paid for two U.S. babies.

On Friday, they will face the public and take part in a question-and-answer session in at a theatre.

The Gateway Theatre, in Chester, north west England, has billed the show -- called 'Meet The Kilshaws' -- as "a chance for the general public to meet them face-to-face unspun and unedited."

The couple adopted the twins, Belinda and Kimberley, in December 2000 in the U.S. and returned with them to Britain where they faced a storm of protest.

They were also subject to police and social service investigations.

The couple, who have two young sons, became embroiled in a trans-Atlantic adoption battle after they paid £8,000 ($12,000) to adopt the girls.

But an American couple said they had already paid a £4,000 ($6,000) fee to an Internet broker to adopt the same children.

A London High Court judge ordered the twins be returned to their U.S. birthplace, saying the Kilshaws were "likely to cause harm" to the babies "in terms of their intellectual, emotional, social and behavioural development."

Their battle for the baby girls left the Kilshaws with legal bills of more than £60,000 ($90,000).

Since losing the twins they have moved to Chester from their six-bedroom farmhouse in Wales.

Earlier this year Alan Kilshaw, a solicitor, was struck off the UK legal register for improperly using clients' money to prop up his overdraft.

Judith Kilshaw said on Thursday: "This is a chance for us to tell our side of things and clear our name."



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