Tax credits was yesterday's news. The bandwagon has rolled on today. It'll be something else tomorrow.
Apparently he is now being interviewed by the police, not about what he was doing in Afghanistan, but about claims that a British agent was involved in his torture.
I expect they need to check that the British tax-payer will be paying him enough money for getting himself locked up in a foreign country by a foreign government when he entered a war zone. You mustn't skimp with these things. Best to think of a number, double it and add a nought just in case.