The mother aged 59 and father, 72, conceived in India with fertility treatment and dumped their twin babies in a British hospital after finding out they were girls.

According to the Sun daily of Britain, the couple told horrified medics they did not want the wrong sex babies immediately after the Caesarean section in Wolverhampton.

The report said the husband also wanted to know how soon it would be before his wife was fit enough to fly out again for further IVF in the hope of getting a boy to continue the family name.

The couple are of Indian descent but British citizens living in Birmingham. According to tabloid, the twins, who are less than two weeks old, were then transferred to a central NHS hospital in Birmingham.