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Wed 01 Jan 2007Decision today on alleged Garda leakThe High Court will rule today on a case in which the State is being sued for damages by a family who claim they had to leave their home in Co Kerry because gardaí allegedly told the media that their nephew, a convicted rapist, was living with them.Alan Gray, his wife Phyllis and their son Francis, Drumalee Road, North Circular Road, Dublin, claim their constitutional rights to privacy were breached when gardaí leaked to the media information that a relative, James O'Donoghue, a convicted sex offender, had been living with them in their then Co Kerry home.