BRITISH tourists allegedly tried to grab the handbrake of a moving coach and leap from the vehicle while suffering a paranoid meltdown after smoking weed on a Bob Marley tour in Jamaica.

Holidaymakers spoke of how they thought they were going to die as the mum and daughter allegedly lunged for the driver while on a bus trip during their TUI holiday to the Caribbean.

The pair, from Essex, are said to have been smoking weed and eating rum cake before boarding the coach back to their hotel in Montenegro Bay.

Witnesses described to The Sun Online how the pair became increasingly agitated to the point they began to scream about how they were being "kidnapped".

And to further complicate matters, social media posts by the family during the meltdown falsely alleging they were being "sex trafficked" went viral.

These posts ended up spreading like wildfire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

The daughter has since posted on Instagram that the family are safe and the matter was a "misunderstanding".

But furious holidaymakers have told The Sun Online how the viral posts are giving Jamaica a bad name, and said they want to correct the "rubbish" being spread on social media.

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It is claimed the weed triggered a paranoid episode – which culminated with the mum and daughter attempting to grapple the driver, pull the handbrake and leap from the moving the vehicle on Tuesday.

The bus was carrying tourists from the UK on a coach trip visiting Dunns Falls and Bob Marley's house on the sun soaked island.

It eventually dropped off the terrified tourists at their resorts after the 90 minute trip from hell – with the driver being hailed as a "hero" for keeping his cool.

The mum and daughter are said to have smoked a joint at the Bob Marley museum at Nine Mile – the tour's final stop.

And before boarding the bus, the mum allegedly started to claim there was a plot of "kidnap" them.

What followed was chaos as the bus tried to navigate the the winding 60 mile trip back to Montenegro Bay while the mum and daughter are said to have become increasingly erratic.

It became so bad apparently they even thought the other Brit tourists on the bus were involved in the "plot".

Darrell Smith, who was on board the bus with his wife Jemma, told The Sun Online how he turned to her and said "I love you" as he though they were going to die.

"I thought this might be the last time we get to say it," he said.

The couple were on the same Bob Marley tour, but were saying at a seperate hotel from the family .

The guests had to pin the mother and eldest down as they were nearly crashing the bus

He said the whole tour group all had a "fantastic day" together as they explored the countryside.

But things changed dramatically when they got back to the bus after visiting Nine Mile.

Darrell said the women became increasingly delusional and tried to break open the bus doors as it was still moving – travelling at speeds of up to 60mph.

He went on: "The mum started screaming 'stop the bus' as we restrained her, and the daughter jumped over the front seats and tried to pull the handbrake.

"I literally grabbed her legs and pulled her back – but she then pushed back into the bus doors.

"Luckily the doors didn't open outwards or we would have both been gone."

Mr Smith says he and another passenger ended up having to restrain two of them as the feared for their lives.

And at one point the mum is said to have opened the bus window and attempted leap out.

But she bumped her head, leaving her with a bloody gash on her eye.

"It wasn't the weed's fault – but the weed triggered something," he told The Sun Online.

Jemma added: "I thought I was going to die. That's how bad it was."

She went on: "Their story about the kidnap was shared thousands of times in a couple of hours – it should have been taken down.

"People see it and think it's so bad, but we were actually there – it didn't happen."

The step mum and daughter were travelling with other family members who are said to have tried to calm them down.

Another holidaymaker, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Sun Online: "It was the scariest journey of my life."

She also rebuffed the daughter's claims on social media that it was a "misunderstanding" – instead branding it a "drug induced lie".

"The guests had to pin the mother and eldest down as they were nearly crashing the bus," she told The Sun Online.

"They were screaming at the youngest daughter to pull the handbrake. We were literally on a cliff edge."

She added: "It's wrong that info like this gives Jamaica and their hotel a bad name when they did nothing but try to keep them safe."

Both coach trip passengers praised the holiday rep and the driver for getting them back safe, saying they were heroes.

And another Brit tourist, who was staying at the same hotel as the family, said: "They had some weed and rum cake and lost the plot."

The family have since returned to the UK – and declined to comment when approached by The Sun Online.

TUI confirmed they are investigating the incident and said there was "no evidence" of the family's viral kidnap claim.

A spokesman for TUI said: "We take reports of this nature seriously and have been in continued contact with the family and will continue to offer our full support."

Essex Police told The Sun Online they were aware of the reports and were in contact with the family.

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