The nurse arrested on suspicion of the murder of eight babies at Chester Hospital grew up in Hereford.
Lucy Letby, 28, was arrested at her home on Tuesday by detectives probing the deaths of 17 infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital, Cheshire.
Her three-bedroom semi lies a mile-and-a-half away from the hospital and police have erected a blue tent outside while they conduct searches and interrogate her at a police station in Chester.