Just over 20 years ago, Judith Kilshaw, now Sillet, with then husband Alan were involved in what has become known as the first story to break the internet.
A woman and her husband made headlines around the world when they tried to buy two baby girls online.
However Judith and Alan weren't the girls first adoptive parents. They had already been taken to live with Richard and Vickie Allen, a Californian couple who agreed to pay £4,000 for the babies. The couple then flew to San Diego on December 1, 2000, where they met the girls for the first time and took them back to their hotel. However, they soon discovered that they weren't the only hopeful adoptive parents.
According to reports, Vickie Allen's brother tracked down the Kilshaws that weekend and demanded they return the girls to their original adoptive parents. Terrified of the girls being taken away from them, the Kilshaws packed their bags and travelled to Arkansas. Following a tense three hour stand-off, Kiara and Keyara were taken from their adoptive parents under an emergency protection order and placed into care on January 19, 2001. Over the next few weeks, the FBI launched an investigation into how the girls had been sold online to two different couples, while Tony Blair vowed to ban the "deplorable" babies-for-cash trade.
Judith Kilshaw has spoken out several times over the last two decades, discussing her hopes with the girls and pleading with them to reach out once they were old enough to make the decision for themselves. Judith and Alan divorced in 2006 but remained close friends.
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