Police saved the life of a child abductor after they went to his flat to rescue a missing teenager and found him collapsed unconscious on a sofa.
Michael Conway died after taking a shottie of legal highs and cannabis and was resuscitated by police child protection officers who spent 20 minutes giving him heart massage and artificial respiration.
The police went to his flat in Exeter after a vulnerable 15-year-old girl in foster care went there after running away from home.
She was found under the influence of cannabis while 63-year-old Conroy was found half naked, face down on the sofa with his trousers around his ankles.
He had been issued with an order by police a few weeks earlier banning him from any contact with the girl after carers discovered she was visiting his home every day.
Conroy was warned off by police after being seen waiting in a car to pick up the girl from the special educational unit she attends in the Devon.
He said the relationship was not sexual and he was more like a surrogate grandfather to the troubled teenager. She described him as a 'money daddy', who gave her cash or presents.
Conway, of Hanover Close, Exeter, admitted child abduction and the possession of cannabis and was jailed for eight months, suspended for two years and ordered to receive two years supervision by Judge Erik Salomonsen at Exeter Crown Court.
He was also banned from having any further contact with the girl. The Judge told him it was not an abduction in the normal sense of the word but he had kept the girl away from her lawful carers.
"The responsibility was on you as an adult to keep away from her. You say she is a strong willed woman who does what she wants and acts as she pleases but the probation report writer describes you as a dishonest and obstructive who sought to implicate the victim in the offending.
"She came to your address and despite the earlier police warning you let her in. Inside you have both cannabis and legal highs.
"You talked about a shottie and indulged yourself in these substances. It may well be she too had cannabis in your house.
"I reject the suggestion from the defence that you were a lonely old man who did not have the strength to say no to company. The evidence does not support that.
"You took drugs and clearly had a fit or a seizure and either became extremely unwell or died and were brought back to life by CPR."
Mr Peter Coombe, prosecuting, said Conroy was issued with a written notice to stay away from the girl In December last year by police after being seen by teachers hanging around near her school.
Police were alerted in February when she failed to return home one night and officers found her at Conroy's home at around 10 pm.
She was tearful and appeared to police to be under the influence of drugs, Officers found Conroy unconscious with his jogging trousers around his ankles face down on the sofa and gave him CPR before he and the girl were both taken to hospital.
They found a legal high called Herbal Haze, a small amount of cannabis and a bong. The girl told officers Conway told her he was going to have 'a shottie' and then started humping the sofa before passing out.
Miss Emily Pitts, defending, said there had been no sexual element in the relationship and Conway had been half naked because his trousers slipped down while he was having a fit.
She said they looked on each other as grandfather and granddaughter and she spoke of him as a 'money daddy'.
She said:"My client has no memory of what happened. He died and the police had to conduct CPR before he started breathing again.
"The nature and severity of the illness were such that if the girl had not been there and the police had not attended he would have died."
