She receives disability benefits following diagnoses of clinical anxiety, long Covid and a functional neurological disorder.
Ms Simpson has described in her statement of grounds how the embassy’s presence has severely disrupted her sleep.
The 35-year-old alleged: “I frequently feel the need to sleep in an alternative to my lifelong bedroom, to gain some marginal relief.
“Sometimes pre-emptively, sometimes in the middle of the night when I cannot reason with my activated primal ‘fear’ brain response (for example, upon hearing a creak, and immediately fearing an intruder accessing my room from the embassy, despite knowing the possibility is very slim and that this response is mostly irrational).”
