The orange was over his mouth, clamped between his teeth. He'd filled it with poppers (amyl nitrate) and it meant he could keep himself as high as a kite while having both his hands free.... bearing in mind he was asyphixiating himself and playing with himself, he needed both hands. Fortunately his stockings hadn't slipped down, because he wouldn't have been able to pull them up.
This had to be the ""ultimate politician's death"" story, didn't it? I'm a court reporter and cover inquests, and there was a little wave of deaths from other men who'd had a go at strangling themselves in various ways after Mr Milligan was found dead.
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