A VICAR fiddled £14,500 to pay for sex with rent boys.

Randy vicar Andrew Sloane, 63, stole from his church’s collection and swindled parishioners in Knightsbridge, West London before he was rumbled.

4 Vicar Andrew Sloane fiddled £14,500 from trusting parishioners and his church's collection pot to pay for sex sessions with prostitutes

He convinced three women ­worshippers he needed temporary emergency loans — and emphasised the need for secrecy.

But an urgent parish meeting was called after it emerged that £3,954.68 in collection money had vanished.

When church officials checked CCTV footage they were astonished to discover that Sloane had taken the cash from a safe at St Paul’s in Knightsbridge, West London.

He was arrested and pleaded guilty to his crimes when he appeared at Westminster magistrates’ court on Tuesday.

4 The 63-year-old convinced three parishioners he needed emergency loans but emphasised the need for secrecy

Prosecutor Miss Katie Bryan said: “The defendant was funding a lifestyle and using rent boys and living beyond his means.

“He is a vicar of at least thirty-five years and joined St Paul’s from a parish in Washington, USA.”

Sloane asked former model Tempe Brickhill for a £1,500 money transfer and then inflated it to £2,500.

Miss Bryan said: “He told her it was to tide him over and he called her several times in order to hurry up the transfer.”

Sloane also emailed Paula Kaplan asking for help paying his US tax bill, the court heard.

She trusted him completely and transferred around £8,000.

4 The randy vicar was rumbled after CCTV showed him stealing from St Paul's Church in West London Credit: Alamy

A third woman received a text from the vicar asking for £500 to be paid into his bank account.

Miss Bryan continued: “A few days later she joined a trip to Paris with other parishioners and the defendant and was shocked he ordered expensive meals and wine so soon after asking for the money.”

Emails and texts Sloane sent included the phrases: “This is strictly between us as friends”, “I appreciate your discretion” and “I don’t want tittle tattle within the parish”.

Miss Bryan said: “There was a meeting because money was missing.

“CCTV shows the defendant taking the money from the church.”

A police investigation began last July — after single Sloane had repaid all the fraudulent loans.

4 Father Sloane tricked Tempe Brickhill into a cash transfer for his seedy act

Ms Brickhill, 56, who is now President Director General of Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake’s London business, told officers she was “angry and disappointed”.

Another victim described Sloane — who has moved to Leeds — as a “thief and a liar involved in certain practices”.

Sloane’s lawyer Shaun Murphy told the court: “These offences reflected a personal crisis in his life and all the money was repaid before the police became involved.

“He made a full confession to the church authorities about what had happened.”

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Sloane admitted stealing from the church collections between January 3, 2015 and September 6 last year.

And he pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud by false representation on dates between November 23, 2014 and July 20 last year, namely false claims of a loan.

Sloane was sentenced to a 12-month jail term suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £115 victim surcharge.

Grade II-listed St Paul’s was completed in 1843. It describes itself as: “A lively twenty-first century church of Anglo-Catholic tradition.”