A teenage chess prodigy who fell to her death from a hotel window had previously attempted suicide after telling her friends her father had raped her, a court heard.

Jessie Gilbert, 19, a former Croydon High School for Girls pupil, died when she fell from an eighth storey window during the Czech Open in July.

Ian Gilbert, a banker with the Royal Bank of Scotland, denies five counts of raping Jessie between 1995 and 2000.

Dorian Lovell-Pank QC told the jury at Guildford Crown Court the 48-year-old raped Jessica, from Croydon, south London, about nine times when she was aged between eight and 13.

"She did not consent. She was scared. She pretended it wasn't happening," the prosecution said.

Mr Lovell-Pank said that Jessie got "very drunk" with some friends on May 14, 2004, and told them she had been raped by her father.

The following day she took an overdose of paracetamol tablets and was taken to East Surrey Hospital. A police investigation was then launched.

"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 has since been arrested three times.

On the last occasion, in May last year, the court heard what he said in interview about his daughter. "He was effectively saying he was a good father and that he did not understand why these allegations were being made," Mr Lovell-Pank said.

Gilbert denies having sex with Jessie and having ever tried to.

The trial continues.