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Father denies raping chess star Chess star's suicide after 'rape'
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The father of a young chess champion who fell to her death from a hotel in the Czech Republic has gone on trial accused of raping her. A chess champion tried to kill herself after telling friends she had been raped by her father, a court has heard.
Ian Gilbert, 48, is standing trial at Guildford Crown Court on charges of rape and sexual assault. Jessie Gilbert, 19, from Croydon, south London, was treated in hospital in 2004 for overdosing on painkillers.
Jessica Gilbert, 19, from Croydon, south London, fell from an eighth floor window of a hotel where she was staying during the Czech Open tournament. The suicide attempt sparked a police investigation leading to her father Ian Gilbert being charged with five counts of rape. He denies all the charges.
Mr Gilbert denies five counts of raping Jessica between 1995 and 2000. Jessie died after falling from the eighth floor of a hotel during the Czech Open tournament in July 2006.
Dorian Lovell-Pank QC, prosecuting, told jurors at Guildford Crown Court how Jessie got "very drunk" with friends in May 2004 and told them her father had raped and sexually abused her.
The next day she took an overdose.
She was scared Dorian Lovell-Pank QC
The prosecutor told the jury: "It rather looks as though it was a real suicide attempt because she had hidden the packet (of drugs) so no-one would find it, and would not tell the hospital staff what she had taken."
Mr Lovell-Pank said Gilbert allegedly raped Jessie about nine times when she was aged between eight and 13.
He said Gilbert was "possessive" and "a bully".
Mr Lovell-Pank told the court Jessie was first raped by her father in her bedroom in 1995.
"She did not consent. She was scared. She pretended it wasn't happening," he said.
The court heard Mr Gilbert was arrested three times, the last occasion in May 2005 when he said in a police interview about Jessie: "Obviously someone who could play chess at that sort of level is able to create all sorts of scenarios in her mind."
Mr Gilbert, 48, a director at the Royal Bank of Scotland, denies five counts of raping Jessie between 1995 and 2000.