No bail for Malvo as sniper suspects appear in court

LOOKING unshaven and unkempt, Washington sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad made his first appearance in a Virginia state court yesterday, a state second only to Texas in executions of adults and juveniles.

Meanwhile, Muhammad's co-defendant John Lee Malvo was ordered held without bond last night after a prosecutor said the teenager had been seen near three shooting scenes in Virginia.

Fairfax County prosecutor Robert F Horan Jr said Malvo, 17, was spotted in Fairfax, in Prince William County and near a gas station in Spotsylvania County all sites where people were shot during the October rampage.