One of the men who comes to Alyona Ivanovna's door while Raskolnikov is trapped inside her flat after the murders. Koch is not central as a character, but his arrival turns the closed room into a public threshold and makes escape depend on seconds.
Epilogue
At the trial, the timing around Koch and the student helps reconstruct how narrowly Raskolnikov escaped discovery.
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