THE identities of the two prosecutors who allegedly bungled bail applications involving gunman Man Monis will remain secret because of fears for their mental health, safety and “significant negative impact” on them.

As The Daily Telegraph and other media organisations today lost an application to lift a suppression order over their identities, the barrister representing the Director of Public Prosecutions said naming one of them could lead to a loss in public confidence in the western

Sydney office where he is based.

The inquest was told that the two lawyers were suffering “stress and anxiety” and could suffer harm to their reputations if identified.

Meanwhile the police officers involved in the cases have been named and three have so far given evidence.

One of the prosecutors is a senior lawyer and a mentor in a western Sydney office of the DPP where the administration of justice demanded that the public, witnesses, victims of crime and other stakeholders should have confidence in the office, counsel for the DPP David

Buchanan SC said today.

The application to overturn the secrecy order was made by counsel Dauid Sibtain SC on behalf of The Daily Telegraph, Channels 9 and 7, the ABC and Fairfax.

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State Coroner Michael Barnes ordered that the names remain suppressed “in the public interest” until he hands down his findings at the end of the inquest into the deaths of hostages, barrister Katrina Dawson and cafe manager Tori Johnson, in the siege in December last year.

The coroner said that one of the magistrates who released Monis on bail in the year before the siege had already received death threats.

One of the lawyers, who has already given evidence, appeared for the prosecution when Monis was granted bail at Penrith Local Court in December 2013 over charges of being an accessory to the murder of his wife.

media_camera Man Haron Monis was facing a fresh 37 sexual assault charges two months before the siege.

The other, who was doing his first bail application, appeared for the prosecution in October last year, two months before the deadly siege, when he did not apply for Monis to be refused bail on a fresh 37 sexual assault charges.

He is expected to be the next witness.

Mr Sibtain told the inquest today that the media were the “eyes and ears” of the public in the inquest and that the expectation that coronial hearings be held in public had been described as of “almost constitutional significance”.

He said that stress and anxiety were a normal part of giving evidence and embarrassment and reputational harm were no foundation for non-publication orders.

“Any interference with open justice is a major step,” Mr Sibtain said.

He said there was no medical evidence that either lawyer had psychiatric or mental health disorders.

Mr Buchanan handed the coroner a catalogue of media articles which he said demonstrated that the lawyers were being “blamed” despite the coroner saying that only Monis was to blame for the siege.

April Francis, who is representing the prosecuting lawyer who did not apply for bail for Monis in October last year, said it could discourage other witnesses from giving evidence if he two lawyers were named.

The inquest in Sydney continues where it is currently examining why Monis was on bail at the time of the siege and whether the siege was a terrorist event.