A Fayette man accused of stabbing his cousin to death was sentenced to

60 years in prison Thursday for selling cocaine twice to a confidential

informant employed by the Fayette County Sheriff's Department's

Drug Task Force.

Tommy Ingram, 49, of 128 Homers Place, Fayetteville, will have to serve

the entire sentence without the possibility of parole because he has previously

been convicted of three felony charges, said Assistant District Attorney

Wesley Persons.

The jury deliberated Thursday afternoon for less than an hour before returning

the guilty verdicts. After the verdicts, Superior Court Judge Christopher

Edwards sentenced Ingram to serve two consecutive (back-to-back) 30 year

prison sentences for both charges.

Ingram also faces a murder charge from the killing which will be handled

in a separate case at a future date. Police say Ingram stabbed to death

his cousin, Terry Durham, 44, as they fought over who was going to sleep

in a room of the house where the killing occurred: on 133 Butler Road in

the Kenwood Road area.

Thursday afternoon, jurors in the drug case against Ingram saw a video

of the informant entering a house on Booker Avenue to make the buy. The

transaction isn't caught on the camera, but the informant testified

that Ingram sold her two rocks of crack cocaine for $20, with her giving

him the money and him pulling the contraband out of a jacket pocket.

Defense attorney Steve Smith pressed the informant, a woman, to recall

which pocket he took the cocaine from. She testified that she couldn't

remember.

On cross-examination, Smith pointed the finger at other persons in the

video, which was dark once indoors because of poor lighting. At one time,

Smith saw a person in the background and asked if he was smoking a cigarette.

"That's a crack pipe," the informant testified.

In his closing, Smith also attacked the criminal record of the informant

in an attempt to discredit her testimony, which was the heart of the state's

case.