Father not guilty of raping chess champion daughter

THE father of a teenage chess prodigy who fell to her death from a hotel window was cleared yesterday of repeatedly raping her when she was still a child.

Ian Gilbert denied his daughter Jessica’s claims that he forced her to have sex with him in her bedroom at the family home in Woldingham, Surrey, when she was just nine years old.

She told police that he raped her repeatedly until she was 13 years old.