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Anyone watching a Crown Court trial can usually predict the verdict within fifteen minutes of the defendant taking the stand, or electing not to do so. Nevertheless, twenty assorted lawyers, juries and officials must spend a week at public expense before the jury considers it's verdict.
If it then transpires that the convict had a record as long as your arm, only the jurors may be surprised. Anyway, the convict will probably go basically unpunished, or be sentenced to a prison regime of idleness, drink and drugs.
Only in very rare cases, the entire life of a defendant such as a professional (who does not receive legal aid and exemption from costs, unlike the old lag) can be destroyed by an unjust conviction.
The risk of increasing this tiny proportion does not justify the massive public expense, costs and waiting lists of every criminal case, iin the hopeless pursuit of an illusory Justice.

other case.
What is the point?