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A girl of six saved her diabetic dad by feeding him Jelly Babies and dialling 999 when he suffered a seizure.

Dave Fitzpatrick started to feel unwell as his blood sugar levels dropped but daughter Lilly recognised he was ­slipping into a coma.

She rubbed a special glucose gel on his cheek as she knew it gave sufferers a jolt of sugar into the body.

But when that failed, quick-thinking Lilly remembered the sweets in her lunchbox.

Lilly, who wants to be a doctor, said: “I knew jelly babies are really sweet so I got them and popped them into my dad’s mouth.”

She called for help and waited for an ambulance.

Dave, 41, of Longbridge, Birmingham, has since made a full recovery and said: “I wouldn’t be here without her, she’s a little hero.”

Mum Michelle Lewis, 39, added: “It’s saved his life, what she’s done.

"He wouldn’t have been able to bring himself around.”