POLICE fired 53 shots in a gunbattle with five armed robbers on a busy Kowloon street just like a scene in a ''cheap movie'', the High Court was told.
Senior Crown Counsel Wayne Muttrie said two robbers were shot dead in the battle and the others surrendered.
Two have admitted the charges and will be sentenced later. The fifth man went on trial before Mr Justice Duffy and a jury yesterday.
Illegal immigrant Siu Wai, 27, faces five charges, related to the robbery of gold jewellery and watches worth more than $2 million from the Chow Tai Fook goldsmith shop in Prince Edward Road, Kowloon City, on December 2, last year.
He is also charged with others of possessing four Chinese self-loading pistols and ammunition and three fragmentation grenades without licences.
The remaining charges are shooting with intent to resist lawful apprehension and false imprisonment of a taxi driver.