THE quick-actions of a New College student saved her father’s life as he was dying in front of her.

Steve Godwin, 54, started turning blue and became unresponsive as he suffered a heart attack at the family’s home in Highworth.

Panicking and thinking he was going to die, 18-year-old Hannah Godwin frantically tried to keep her dad alive by doing CPR with her hands before the paramedics arrived.

Now, just a week after the incident, Steve is back home recovering well thanks to Hannah's fast reactions.

“A lot of people congratulated me for being able to react in the way I did and saving my dad’s life at 18," said Hannah. "But at that moment in time, it was just the reality of either trying my hardest to save my dad or not having him in my life at all."

The traumatic ordeal began when Hannah and her mum Lianne, 49, went to the kitchen to get Steve a glass of hot water, as he had been suffering with indigestion for a few days and it was one of the remedies suggested online.

But as the pair were walking into the lounge they heard Steve let out a loud gasp for air.

“We heard the most awful noise,” Hannah recalled.

“My dad wasn't responding and began spitting at the mouth and turning a heart-breaking shade of blue.

“I dialled 999 and managed to calm down enough to state our address and receive instruction.”

Hannah and her mum then desperately struggled to get Steve onto the floor as he had been napping on the sofa.

“I then asked ‘Should I do CPR?’ as I could no longer feel a pulse and his heart wasn't beating,” she said.

Acting fast she began to carry out the life-saving technique, which luckily she had learnt from her time with the air cadets.

“I wasn’t losing him,” the teenager said.

She then continued until the paramedics came four minutes later and Steve was flown to Southampton General Hospital by the Wiltshire Air Ambulance.

Steve, a CAD designer for Mini, has since had angioplasty surgery and was discharged from hospital on Friday.

He said: “I don’t remember anything that happened, but she did a good job. I’m doing very well and pottering about. The service with the air ambulance and the hospital was fantastic.”

Hannah is also planning on doing some charity work to raise money for Wiltshire Air Ambulance as a way of saying thank you.

She added: “I will be forever grateful to them, the surgeon who carried out an angioplasty on him, the intensive care team and the Wiltshire Air Ambulance who took him to Southampton."